Why don't all anti-gay Republicans just come out of the closet now and save us all the trouble? We all know they're overcompensating. Every last one of them. Here's more proof.
This one's pretty juicey, too. This guy is a senator from Idaho who voted in favor of cloture on debate over the Federal Marriage Amendment, and against cloture on a bill that would expand the hate crimes laws to include homosexuals. On the side he likes to bugger his bum-buddies in the bathroom.
According to a cop who had the misfortune of being in a public stall when this dude walked in, “I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, ‘fidget’ with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again. Craig would repeat this cycle for about two minutes.”
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The Wonderful Fount o' Fundies
Fundies Say the Darndest things has led me to yet another goldmine of fundamentalist lunacy. This guy, Bill Meuhlenberg, is especially interesting because of his sycophantic enthusiasm for my arch nemesis, Leon Kass. He's all with the "reproductive technology is destroying th family" bullshit.
The article to which I have linked is a review of the book, Biotechnology and the Assault on Parenthood by some stupid asshole. In the review, Meuhlenberg goes off on the ubiquitous paranoia about reproductive technology, surrogacy, and the like.
According to Meuhlenberg, "Indeed, if personhood is reduced to a simple collection of atoms and DNA, then any sense of human dignity and human rights disappears, for it is senseless to talk of atoms having rights." That would be true if people abandoned the recognition of sentience and self-worth as guarantors of dignity, which would not be the case in the implementation of any reproductive technology. He's right that it's senseless to speak of atoms having rights, because atoms don't have sentience, self-worth, or the capacity to suffer. It is senseless to bestow rights upon anything that either does not or can not value them. It is for this reason that it is just as senseless to bestow rights upon embryos.
The argument that usually follows from fundies when this assertion is made is that embryos have the potential to become something that can have the capacity to value rights. I feel, however, that the point at which this potential is given weight is arbitrary. An embryo has little more potential to become a person than a sperm does. Without a woman's body, an embryo has no more chance of survival than a sperm. Even if there were a significant increase in potential at the time of conception, a sperm still has some potential, but is still not regarded as having the dignity of a person, so potential alone is clearly not enough for a mass of cells to be deserving of rights.
Guys like Meuhleneberg are so paranoid that they believe allowing people to regard anything that happens to have human genes as less valuable than a thinking, feeling, reasoning human being will inevitably lead to denying rights to all human beings. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that human dignity is based on more than just the possession of human genes.
The article to which I have linked is a review of the book, Biotechnology and the Assault on Parenthood by some stupid asshole. In the review, Meuhlenberg goes off on the ubiquitous paranoia about reproductive technology, surrogacy, and the like.
According to Meuhlenberg, "Indeed, if personhood is reduced to a simple collection of atoms and DNA, then any sense of human dignity and human rights disappears, for it is senseless to talk of atoms having rights." That would be true if people abandoned the recognition of sentience and self-worth as guarantors of dignity, which would not be the case in the implementation of any reproductive technology. He's right that it's senseless to speak of atoms having rights, because atoms don't have sentience, self-worth, or the capacity to suffer. It is senseless to bestow rights upon anything that either does not or can not value them. It is for this reason that it is just as senseless to bestow rights upon embryos.
The argument that usually follows from fundies when this assertion is made is that embryos have the potential to become something that can have the capacity to value rights. I feel, however, that the point at which this potential is given weight is arbitrary. An embryo has little more potential to become a person than a sperm does. Without a woman's body, an embryo has no more chance of survival than a sperm. Even if there were a significant increase in potential at the time of conception, a sperm still has some potential, but is still not regarded as having the dignity of a person, so potential alone is clearly not enough for a mass of cells to be deserving of rights.
Guys like Meuhleneberg are so paranoid that they believe allowing people to regard anything that happens to have human genes as less valuable than a thinking, feeling, reasoning human being will inevitably lead to denying rights to all human beings. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that human dignity is based on more than just the possession of human genes.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Rove Gone?
Wow, Karl Rove resigned. I always thought he was a Loyal Bushy.
The idea that Karl Rove is resigning because he no longer agrees with the Bush administration seems bizarre to me. We all know he has no conscience, so he's not leaving as a matter of principle.
The only reasons I can think of for Rove's resignation are that he has been given some other career opportunity that is better than his current gig, of which I've seen no evidence, or the investigations that are being conducted are about to uncover something that would be very damaging to the Bush Administration if it were to be revealed while he is still a part of it.
I think he's quitting now, so Bush doesn't have to fire him when the really bad shit comes out.
Also, this is intersting:
The idea that Karl Rove is resigning because he no longer agrees with the Bush administration seems bizarre to me. We all know he has no conscience, so he's not leaving as a matter of principle.
The only reasons I can think of for Rove's resignation are that he has been given some other career opportunity that is better than his current gig, of which I've seen no evidence, or the investigations that are being conducted are about to uncover something that would be very damaging to the Bush Administration if it were to be revealed while he is still a part of it.
I think he's quitting now, so Bush doesn't have to fire him when the really bad shit comes out.
Also, this is intersting:
Friday, August 3, 2007
Another Ex-Muslim Who Knows Dick About Islam
A week after this was filmed, Muslim clerics in Spain did in fact declare a fatwa against bin Laden.
Brownback vs His Lunatic Supporters
Sam Brownback proves he may not be as crazy as his base of support by distancing himself from Blogs4Brownback and the equally wacky Baptists For Brownback.
This is a statement released from the Brownback campaign:
“Baptists for Brownback is clearly a parody. Frankly, our campaign is flattered that an individual would take hours out of their day and sit behind a computer anonymously to make a parody of Senator Brownback and his consistent, conservative positions on the issues. It certainly is one of the weirder hobbies out there.”
While BFB and B4B look like parody sites, they sadly are not.
This is the reaction from BFB:
"Heavenly Father,
We humbly ask You to strengthen Sen. Brownback’s resolve to resist the forces of evil pundits and divisive presidential candidates who demand renunciation of those who support him"
What a bunch of screwballs.
Clearly B4B is in a state of denial:
"Does anybody think for even a second that someone charged with the great authority to speak on behalf of a presidential campaign would be so unprofessional as to dismiss a supporter with insults, without even having attempted to have contacted the supporter in question to verify the legitimacy of the site?
Come on! There is no way that someone in that position of authority would be that careless, reckless and unprofessional."
This is a statement released from the Brownback campaign:
“Baptists for Brownback is clearly a parody. Frankly, our campaign is flattered that an individual would take hours out of their day and sit behind a computer anonymously to make a parody of Senator Brownback and his consistent, conservative positions on the issues. It certainly is one of the weirder hobbies out there.”
While BFB and B4B look like parody sites, they sadly are not.
This is the reaction from BFB:
"Heavenly Father,
We humbly ask You to strengthen Sen. Brownback’s resolve to resist the forces of evil pundits and divisive presidential candidates who demand renunciation of those who support him"
What a bunch of screwballs.
Clearly B4B is in a state of denial:
"Does anybody think for even a second that someone charged with the great authority to speak on behalf of a presidential campaign would be so unprofessional as to dismiss a supporter with insults, without even having attempted to have contacted the supporter in question to verify the legitimacy of the site?
Come on! There is no way that someone in that position of authority would be that careless, reckless and unprofessional."
Thursday, August 2, 2007
More Crazy Brownbackers
Here's a comment from Blogs4Brownback:
"Apes are just creatures twisted by Satan to mock Jesus by giving EVILolition credibility. Further more they are naturally lust crazed for human women. Since they are not natural creatures they should be exterminated forthwith as the tools of evil they are."
"Apes are just creatures twisted by Satan to mock Jesus by giving EVILolition credibility. Further more they are naturally lust crazed for human women. Since they are not natural creatures they should be exterminated forthwith as the tools of evil they are."
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