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Though you seem to want to sound like an expert on homosexuality, ( that's an issue to explore later) you don't have the simplist facts right. Homosexuals can and do reproduce (unfortunately.). I've heard so much analysis, dissection, speculation and criticism of homosexuality I grow numb. I would like to hear a lengthy analysis of bigotry, dissected and exposed to sunlight. Enough with blaming the victim. Bigots praddle a lot because law Presently backs them up. Being openly gay takes more courage than talking bigotry because the government does not protect them.
B. Michael Carpenter
Language ? Civil Union, Marriage ? Why not deal with the legal aspect of it all through Civil union for all regardless of orientation and that requirement having been met (separation of church and state ) leave the spiritual aspect to the church. You pay the fee for civil union for the sake of letter of the law,then you take the valid legal document to the church and entitle the church to decide whether or not to fulfill your spiritual needs for religious, spiritual , sanctions regarding various definitions of marriage ? Too simple to be considered I suppose.
"Kim Jong-un" is pronounced /kĭm jawng ŭn/, not /... ōōn/ or /... ŏŏn/ (sorry, I can't find a font with double-o ligatures). By (South) Korean transliteration rules, it would be spelled Kim Jeong-eun.
I think it's odd that Thom would complain about Marbury v. Madison while agreeing that each branch should answer Constitutional questions for itself. The position of the court in Marbury was that the judicial branch could not force the executive branch (specifically the Secretary of State) to commit an action (specifically sealing and delivering a commission), known as a mandamus ("we mandate"). And the court could not refuse that power without taking on the power of judicial review, which was necessary to make the judgement that they could not make certain judgements.
Jefferson agreed that the court could not effect a mandamus in his letter to Spencer Roane 13 years later. I'd still like to see any mention of Marbury by Jefferson written reasonably soon after the decision. And I'd like to see the letter from Spencer Roane to see what court case Jefferson's letter was actually about. Jefferson says he's bringing up Marbury because it's a case he's familiar with. He does not say it's the case Roane brought up.
There is no we the people except for gays or blacks or hispanics or woman or tall or short the constitution say WE THE PEOPLE plain and simple I think they should just follow the constitrution everyone says is the law of the land.
WOW Palin. Or, you should just let anyone who wants to get married and focus on creating more jobs. They don't get more right then me and I am all for gay marriage, way should they only be happy. But seriously what difference does it make to be if BOB and BOB or Jane and Jane get hitched. I thought we are all created equal. Equal rights for all.
I'll say that Civil Rights should not be left up to a popular vote.
"Animus" is really just Latin for "spirit", but there has been a drift toward a figurative use as "spirit against", since people tend to get more spirited with negative emotions.
Lord knows he has probably already had pre-marital sex with said duck. Honestly, if he wants to marry a duck, who cares? I just don't want to be around when his divorce celebration meal is Duck a l'orange lol
It is not funny but it is; the judicial branch of the right wing has been fracking America for the longest time. One thing is for sure, putting hazmat material by or through public land has to be the perfect Wahhabi fundamental device to eliminate the infidel.
That includes the so called keystone pipeline. Sheesh, hazmat being piped through American heart land fresh water supply only could be gotten from a desert extremist, the Lawrence of Arabia our very own Picasso Bush. It’s called nonintrusive infidel elimination Allah Halliburton secret Dubai Carlyle partnered emeritus government death squads. Former president Bush is painting the fresh water picture for us right now.
From my view all of the judicial judges should be fitted for brinks money bags. Since free speech is money America should hang money bags on all the judicial branch judges as they speak so we could collect all the money we can as they barf out free speech money.
Isn’t it a wonderful life to think of a wonderful way to collect enough money to pay off the deficit? To collect the free speech money they spew out. Our Supreme Court has to be loaded with free speech money, let’s line up for their fitting as soon as possible in the next telecast their honors judge Roberts, Alito, and Scalia they have to be loaded with free speech money.
Sound crazy? They are.
Isn't it amazing how Halliburton's name always comes up when there are problems, e.g. the BP explosion that incinerated 11 workers and made the worst mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Companies like Halliburton are always trying to cut corners at the expense of workers, even with the US space shuttle that exploded; people knew tiles were missing but management was more concerned about deadlines than the valuable people they lost. This is what it means to have corporate idiots running things. Also have you noticed it's often women who blow the whistle like Brooksley Born when she said the derivatives market needed to be regulated? But then she was shot down by Larry Summers and all those banking executives--they got their bonuses and the American people got the shaft. And still the GOP is trying to prevent the Consumer Protection Agency from having any teeth and protecting the rights of individuals.
Well, Kend, I sure agree with you on that one. There are way more important things to worry about than what they are trying to cram into our auricular and ocular orifices (or a few others I shan't name) now. It must be a wag the dog moment. Get the people to concentrating on relatively inane side issues and ignore the really important ones...like starvation, pollution, affordable shelter and health care. Less than 2% of the population in the US is gay. And the only reason I can see why gays want to have a legally sanctioned marriage is for benefits that are typically awarded to people who are capable of producing offspring...children. And, until they start creating life in a test tube, heterosexual unions are necessary for the propagation of the species...homosexual ones are not.
There are a lot of lazy leaches who don't want to "get a job" and prefer to sponge off of a spouse for the rest of their lives (and that goes for both heterosexuals and homosexuals who can both be "gold-diggers"). But only heterosexuals have the capability of creating children. And when you create children, you help to propagate the species. But, oftentimes some people are way too "creative" and end up creating more of a problem than is good for a healthy population. While it could be argued that the "non-breeders" are not adding to any overpopulation problems...they certainly can never create life. So, "breeders" are essential and "non-breeders" are not. It is merely a 'sexual preference'.
Sexual proclivities should not be the crow-bar to open the public coffers of a system already over-burdened by the needs of a 'normal' system...especially when it is being sacked by the misdeeds of the criminal ruling elite. Instead of wasting so much time on trying to gain aberrant 'rights' for such a tiny 'aberrant' section of the population...we need to concentrate of the suffering of the majority of 'normal' people.
Gee, I wonder if I could, one day, seek and win access to the public coffers for my dependent 'hand'. It's been so close to me...in fact, inseparable. Now if I can only legally marry my hand and claim it as a dependent. Or, maybe I should just tell my hand to 'get a job'. Some people may even, one day, marry their favorite bestial household pet...like a sheep named Dolly, perhaps.
"The meek shall inherit the Earth"...what's left of it anyway. The wealthy polluters will board their starship and find somewhere else in the Universe to exploit and pollute. After the Earth is turned into a wreaking, pestilential, cesspool by these arrogant snits, if there is any life left on it, they will all hope to Zarathustra that they were all merely flies and cockroaches with no ability to hope, or think, or plan and work for a future. In reality, that is what many have already become, mentally, in this 'dog-eat-dog', 'I've got mine' world. Maybe, before that happens, we'll all be lucky and a giant meteor will smash into the earth killing all, including the arrogant, selfish bloodsuckers that rule it.
Ken
Ask everyone that got sick and are still sick and dying around the gulf how happy they are with the oil companies ,they love yguy that follow a blind tradition.
Not to mention all the dead dolphins,birds,plankton fish,etc,etc.
Maybe truth hurts and renewable energy is useless,who knew.
Here in Canada we don't care who you marry as long as they watch hockey.
millions of people out of work, a infrastucture falling apart, 1 out of 5 people on food stamps and this is what your government is working on. Seriously
George Reiter - I checked out the book on amazon and it looked so interesting and well written I downloaded it. Thank you for the recommendation!
You know, PD, one has to wonder where these obtuse, money grubbing oil company executives and their lackeys think they're going to escape to when they've poisoned the water supply and unleashed unimaginable weather events through their single minded pursuit of "wealth". The good news is that I probably won't be around to see the worst of it. The bad news is that I believe in reincarnation :-(
Another documentary that shows just how bad fracking is, that is currently playing on LINK TV, is called: "Fracking Hell: the Big Story". On YouTube, it is called Fracking Hell: the Untold Story. One of the things that they talk about is that there is a real danger that even radioactive materials could be released into our drinking water.
But aside from the potential radioactive pollution there is real evidence that lots of other very deadly forms of pollution from fracking is occurring. They also showed several scenes where they were able to ignite their drinking water. This is just the tip of the iceberg...because in a few years there won't be just a few thousand fracking operations in any one state...they have plans to have as many as 60,000 in some states. They are currently completing about 4 fracking wells per day in the US. And this is expected to explode in the next few years unless something is done about it.
I wouldn't doubt that some of you people that "poo-poo" these films, and the facts, are so financially vested with the criminal fracking polluters that you are part of their attempted cover-up. Do they pay you or do you have stock in their companies? After watching these documentaries who is going to believe you, anyway, the oil connected apologists for the oil companies?
Yes Palin I saw Gasland what a load of crap. I can't believe you fell for that poop. Gas is very often found at the surface and in the water supply and has been for hundreds of years. The a safest thing to do is extract the gas and heat your house, cook diner or BBQ a steak.
Douglas that might be the stupidest thing I have ever heard here. I live in a oil town full of Oil Company Employees there are great people doing a great job providing energy for you to have every day luxuries Unlike a terrorist who is trying to kill me.
Thanks Hal
I recommend the book “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It” by Lawrence Lessig. Read how corporations externalize costs at the expense of the general welfare.
Could it be possible that the so called cocktail used in hydro-fracking is really very expensive to get rid of toxic waste being inexpensively gotten rid of by injecting it into our planet via hydro-fracking? In other words what if hydro-fracking really only requires water for the hydro energy part of the fracking? It seems to me a ton of money could be secretly made by getting rid of toxic waste, without proper legislation this way. Any number of industries could be involved.
Remember we're talking about Halliburton here.....could it be?
Very good!
We should also throw in that Reagan tripled the national debt.
Ikeberlterson: The corp. mass media basically states that the Democrats want to raise taxes and the Republicans want to stop out of control Govt. spending. Sounds pretty good if you're a Republican public servant representing only Joe the Billionaire. However the truth is achieved by the addition of only a few words like, Democrats want to close tax loopholes on the very wealthy and the Republicans want to place ownership of their own past out of control spending on Obama and the Democrats. That spending being the cost of Cheney's War and 32 years of unfunded tax cuts for the rich.
So to summarize, the corp. media wants all of us to think the following. The Democrats want to raise EVERYONES taxes in order to fuel more out of control Govt. spending. The Republicans want to give everyone a tax cut and end this so called out of control spending.
Truth is the Republicans did the spending and only the super rich got the real tax cuts.
But as to why the Democrats won't go on the offensive is still a mystery to me....fear of the press maybe....but the billionaire owned press is already in full out anti- Democrat propaganda mode....so why even care how they react?
Halfonts: EXACTLY! As you state, " Meanwhile the Perps continue on, without adequate regulation, inspection or liability." So what's the solution? Trust Halliburton to exercise due dilligence? Doesn't the disaster in the Gulf suggest that these people need to show cause as to why they should be allowed to play with our groundwater responsibly? I mean, all we're talking about here is a dwindling supply of potable drinking water. In other words, survival of the species on the North American Continent!
Kend makes a valid point. Fracturing a well for development is not new or in-and-of-itself good or bad. There are other critical factors totally ignored in the hysterical debate (if it can even be called "debate"). Some wells are shallow, other wells are deep -- Duhhhh. Some well-pipes are sealed properly; others are not. Some ground water can be contaminated; other groundwater (and basements) can not.
But No, in the word-games of tribal politics, "frack-ing" is the new nasty -- the new chant in the streets. Rather than deal with the complexities of writing regulations that require best-practices for different types of wells and geology, backed up by quality independent inspection and severe certain penalties for violations, including strict liability for damage -- we get know-nothing political chants "No More Frack-ing" -- mostly much noise, signifying nothing. Meanwhile the Perps continue on, without adequate regulation, inspection or liability.
--jim
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