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Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:47:34 GMT

clipped by: OhBlaDi

Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

12 Nov, 2006 General, -Funneh

Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans. .

Tags: politics, idiots, gay marriage

22 Things You Didn't Know You Could Get for Free

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:09:54 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.rewardprograms.org

Conventional wisdom holds that you only get what you pay for, but the real free geek knows that with the right knowledge (and maybe a charming smile) pretty much anything, even the good stuff, can be had for less or in the best case scenarios nothing at all. Despite this, there are a number of things out there that don't seem to scream "free" majority of the time (MIT being one). Here's a list of a few free things that might surprise you.

Classes at MIT

Language Lessons

Business Education

Computer Classes

Museum Admission

Concerts, Movies and Shows

Pets

Gym Membership

Photo Prints

411 Service

Phone Calls

Email Reminders

Ice Cream

Used Books

Household Items

Makeup

Face Cream

Good Samples

Comic Books

CPR Courses

Legal Music

Coffee

While not everything you want can always be free, there are a lot of free things out there for the taking if you know when to go and where. So take advantage of this list, and start getting all the free stuff you deserve (you've worked hard for it).

Tags: free, life, entertainment, education, food, interesting, list

The era of the American Internet is ending.

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:45:18 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: “Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — The era of the American Internet is ending.

Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.

Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably military — consequences.

“Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge,”

Tags: net, traffic, routing, us

Weird sex laws

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:53:37 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: bertc.com

In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.)

In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during theexamination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.!! The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired. (Ah! Justice!)

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

Tags: sex, law, people, life

Fun Stuff On the Web -- Things To Do This Weekend

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:45:59 GMT

clipped by: Bookyards

Clip Source: bookyards.blogspot.com

Here are some of my favorite sites on the web.

100 of the Best Legal Free Full Version Games You Can Download Online -- If you love games, this site is for you.(from an ex-game addict junkie)

TV Mafia -- this site has over 300 TV series with complete episodes of favorite shows.

Some of my favorite movie download sites:
- Fresh HDL
- High Definition Share -- High Def. Movies

- Free Movie Download Blog

Movie Ost's -- A site dedicated to movie soundtracks.

If you want to read a book, there is:
- Bookyards The Library
- Bookyards list of free online libraries -- separated by category
- The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

Here are some pirate library sites for more up to date books:
- Burgomeister
- Bookworm
- Greylib

Tags: free computer games, fun stuff on the web, movie download sites, pirate book sites, tv series download site

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In USA

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:33:48 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: I can't believe it. I'm not good at legal speak so I am not sure what to make of this. Go to the site and read the rest or just google the title of the article and find out more. If anyone has any idea if this in any way can be true, please say so.

"(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order

Clip Source: winnipeg.indymedia.org

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States

July 19, 2007

In one of his most chilling moves to date against his own citizens, the American War Leader has issued a sweeping order this week outlawing all forms of protest against the Iraq war.

President Bush enacted into US law an ‘Executive Order’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_%28United_States%29 on July

17th titled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq", http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

According to Russian legal experts, the greatest concern to the American people are the underlying provisions of this new law, and which, they state, are written ‘so broadly’ as to outlaw all forms of protest against the war.

the insertion of the word ‘services ’ has broad, and catastrophic, consequences

any act deemed by their government to be against the Iraqi war is, in fact, supporting the ‘enemy’

Tags: war, iraq, usa, bush, dictatorship, omg, free speech, mca, terrorism, tyranny

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:07:47 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: You gotta love these!!!!

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

«The Effect of Country Music on Suicide»

«Love and Sex with Robots»

"Human-robot marriages will be legal by 2050"

«Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature»

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»
(S. Ghirlanda, L. Jansson, M. Enquist; Stockholm University; 2002)
"The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences"

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»
(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005)
"A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment"

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»
(V. Breno Meyer-Rochow and J. Gal; International University of Bremen and Lorand Eotvos University of Hungary; 2005)
"They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over... and shoot"

Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread»

Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal

Tags: bizarre

If Taglines Were Honest, They'd Say...

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:03:58 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Just some grins.

Clip Source: www.guardedlyoptimistic.com

iPod: It’ll break in a year, but by then you’ll want the new one.

Samsung: Didn’t you mean to buy Sony?

Ikea: One day you’ll be able to afford real furniture.

Taco Bell: You’re drunk and we’re still open.

Southwest Airlines: On your marks, get set, find a seat!

PopTarts: Until you realize how disgusting they are, we’ll keep making them.

Ben and Jerry’s: Whoah, dude, did you eat that whole thing?

Krispy Kreme: Less filling, just as fattening.

McDonalds: Always a good idea. Until afterwards.

Starbucks: Long lines, high prices and the best legal high available.

Hummer: Get the attention you’ve always craved. While filling up the gas tank again.

Clip Source: www.guardedlyoptimistic.com

Twitter: What are you doing? How about now? ...and now?

Clip Source: www.guardedlyoptimistic.com

The Republican Party: We care about children. Until they're born.

Tags: funny

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:04:45 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: "She said her family believed in the Bible and that healing came from God. But she insisted that they were not "crazy religious people"

"Even after her death, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, who did not belong to any organised faith, prayed over her body in the hope that she might be resurrected."

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid

An 11-year-old girl died from diabetes after her parents prayed for her recovery rather than calling for medical assistance.

Madeline Neumann died on Sunday in Wisconsin, from an undiagnosed but treatable ailment.

Dan Vergin, the local police chief, said she had been ill for a month, suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

"She just got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.

Police are now preparing a report for prosecutors. However, legal action against the parents may be prevented by a Wisconsin state statute against failing to act to protect children from bodily harm.

The statute contains an exemption for what it refers to as "treatment through prayer". Mrs Neumann, whose husband is a former policeman, said they had never expected her daughter to die. She suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin.

Tags: faith, faith healing, prayer, bible, christianity, christian, religion

Church of Hate Pays Thru the Nose

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:14:27 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Though money cannot comfort the father who lost his son hopefully it will have an effect on this despicable "church". I actually cheered when I heard the outcome of this suit on the news.

Clip Source: www.baltimoresun.com

Father of slain Marine wins case against funeral protesters

Pa. man awarded nearly $11 million in compensatory and punitive damages

The brokenhearted father of a Marine killed in Iraq won a long-shot legal fight today after a federal jury in Baltimore awarded him nearly $11 million in a verdict against members of a Kansas church who hoisted anti-gay placards at his son's Westminster funeral.

The jury's announcement 24 hours after deliberations first began was met with tears and hugs from the family and supporters of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, whose March 2006 funeral was protested by members of the Westboro Baptist Church with signs including "Thank God for dead soldiers."

Snyder's father, Albert, won on every count of his complaint, as well as $2.9 million for compensatory damages and $8 million for punitive damages.

Tags: hate, homophobia, religion, racism

FREEWAY HATE MAIL!

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:55:24 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: This site is dedicated to free speech and guerilla artists everywhere.

Clip Source: www.freewayblogger.com

Latest Press:

Your support is appreciated.

Fun with SUVS!

To be included on this list contact us

Placement Strategies

make.

Say... is it legal?

Tags: war, images

Why Is Marijuana Illegal?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:40:47 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis.

Clip Source: blogs.salon.com

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.

The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.

You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:

Racism

Fear

Protection of Corporate Profits

Yellow Journalism

Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators

Personal Career Advancement and Greed

These are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal.

Medical Marijuana Advocate Kills Herself

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:50:44 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: missoulian.com

Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.

After her earlier attempt failed, Prosser wound up in even more trouble after investigating police found marijuana in her home. She used the marijuana to help cope with pain.

She was a high-profile campaigner for the Montana Medical Marijuana Act, and like others, she was dismayed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that drug agents could still arrest sick people using marijuana, even in states that legalized its use.

“Most recently, she had found some people who said they could get her what she needed, but it didn't go well,” said her friend Jane Byard.

Without the relief that marijuana delivered to her, Robin Prosser killed herself at home last week. She was 50.

Tags: medical, marijuana, health, suicide, death, legal, drugs

Another Bush Lie: On Torture

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:11:00 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: From the article:

"Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on “combined effects” over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion’s overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be “ashamed” when the world eventually learned of it."

Clip Source: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.

Tags: torture, war, war on terror, lies, deception

Why is Marijuana illegal ?

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:52:03 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: The history on the page goes into specific detail.

Clip Source: blogs.salon.com

A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis

You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:

Racism
Fear
Protection of Corporate Profits
Yellow Journalism
Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
Personal Career Advancement and Greed

7000-8000 B.C.

First woven fabric believed to be from hemp.

1619

Jamestown Colony, Virginia passes law requiring farmers to grow hemp.

Tags: marijuana, illegal, hemp, plant, rope, fibre, cannabis

Clipmarks | wiccantexan's 'legal' clips

Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

22 Things You Didn't Know You Could Get for Free

The era of the American Internet is ending.

Weird sex laws

Fun Stuff On the Web -- Things To Do This Weekend

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In USA

Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»(S. Ghirlanda, L. Jansson, M. Enquist; Stockholm University; 2002) "The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences"

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005) "A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment"

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»(V. Breno Meyer-Rochow and J. Gal; International University of Bremen and Lorand Eotvos University of Hungary; 2005) "They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over... and shoot"

If Taglines Were Honest, They'd Say...

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid

Church of Hate Pays Thru the Nose

Father of slain Marine wins case against funeral protesters

Pa. man awarded nearly $11 million in compensatory and punitive damages

FREEWAY HATE MAIL!

Why Is Marijuana Illegal?

Medical Marijuana Advocate Kills Herself

Another Bush Lie: On Torture

Why is Marijuana illegal ?

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»
(S. Ghirlanda, L. Jansson, M. Enquist; Stockholm University; 2002)
"The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences"

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»
(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005)
"A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment"

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»
(V. Breno Meyer-Rochow and J. Gal; International University of Bremen and Lorand Eotvos University of Hungary; 2005)
"They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over... and shoot"