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Portia de Rossi To Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Gay Marriage Should Be Called Marriage (VIDEO)
Commented Dec 04, 2009 at 19:51:58 in Entertainment
“The rights enjoyed by men are not men's rights, they are human righs. So do women want to be called human? Let's ask them. Duh!”
walleymr replied on Dec 04, 2009 at 19:56:59
“Ask Lizzy, she'd probably just blink at you.”
Star Jones: Tiger Woods Should Talk To Fellow Adulterer Barbara Walters
Commented Dec 04, 2009 at 19:29:28 in Media
“You're old fashion.
And it is not that you do not know anyone who has committed adultery, it's that you do not know if any of the people you know have committed adultery.
How sad it is to know that the compelling reason that people marry is about sex. I could not have cared less if my wife had slept with someone else. I would have been mortified if she loved him or her. Emotional infidelity would be my wake-up call, not the unbridled physical passions and actions that we might exhibit. If I fail my partner emotionally, then nothing else matters.”
And it is not that you do not know anyone who has committed adultery, it's that you do not know if any of the people you know have committed adultery.
How sad it is to know that the compelling reason that people marry is about sex. I could not have cared less if my wife had slept with someone else. I would have been mortified if she loved him or her. Emotional infidelity would be my wake-up call, not the unbridled physical passions and actions that we might exhibit. If I fail my partner emotionally, then nothing else matters.”
"Couples Retreat" Poster In UK Removes Black Couple
Commented Nov 15, 2009 at 18:49:42 in Entertainment
“Then look again. The position of the couples on the left and right have actually been reversed, and the main couple is more out of the water. Even Universal has acknowledged that the Black couple cut was deliberate.
This was a conscious decision, and the progressive, non-racial society that the UK might be is not the one this poster change depicts.”
This was a conscious decision, and the progressive, non-racial society that the UK might be is not the one this poster change depicts.”
Grayson, Progressives Push Reid To Strong-Arm Lieberman, Conservative Dems
Commented Oct 14, 2009 at 20:14:28 in Politics
“8%? Don't tease me, now! My company pays full health insurance for eight employees. We each have a $3,000 deductible, which none of us has ever reached. So each year, we pay the health insurance company more than $35,000, and they pay out not a dime in claims because none of us meet the deductible amount. Yet, in the past three years, our premiums have gone up 13%, 18% and now 23.5%. So if health reform can get that down to 8%, sign me up now!
Oh, wait. The WSJ? Yeah. I believe you.”
Oh, wait. The WSJ? Yeah. I believe you.”
margent7 replied on Oct 14, 2009 at 20:31:24
“Well you each paid less than $3,000 per year, now you will pay $7,600, mandatory. How do you like it now, your bottom line just went out the window.”
Obama's Sister Drops By White House For A Visit
Commented Oct 13, 2009 at 22:59:02 in Politics
“It's idiomatic. Vernacular. ...don't need . . . . Should have been "....don't need no purpose." for authenticity.”
DeloresT replied on Oct 13, 2009 at 23:55:32
“Or: "She don't not need a reason!" Just joking. When I need correcting, it doesn't bother me one bit.”
jozzie replied on Oct 13, 2009 at 23:14:40
“And you're kidding exactly who?”
Michele Bachmann: "I'm Certainly Not Going To Fear The Likes Of Keith Olbermann" (VIDEO)
Commented Oct 08, 2009 at 14:31:19 in Politics
“There were times in our history when the Ku Klux Klan was on the ascendancy, when Father Coughlin held forth. Are those our standard for progress and decency and justice?”
Obama Vacation: The President's Martha's Vineyard Reading List
Commented Aug 25, 2009 at 11:48:49 in Politics
“How interesting that Ms. Morrison is put at the same level of artistic achievement and cultural regard as Ms. Knowles and Ms. Turner. Perhaps they can do all of this over pancakes served by Aunt Jemima.
Such a reading has reference in African-American history, and would be historic in having the first African-American literary Nobel Laureate reading her work of hstoric culture references to the first African-American President.”
Such a reading has reference in African-American history, and would be historic in having the first African-American literary Nobel Laureate reading her work of hstoric culture references to the first African-American President.”
Obama Vacation: The President's Martha's Vineyard Reading List
Commented Aug 24, 2009 at 18:28:36 in Politics
“Perhaps President Obama or the First Lady might find a copy of Toni Morison's 'Jazz" and read it in one sitting by a window looking out on a pastoral seting, or while actually sitting outside within it.. i did that one day on Martha's Vineyard and the experience stays with me nearly two decades later. Sure, some knowledge of Africah-American history, like the St. Louis riots of 1917 and the photography of James van der Veer, would be enhancing, but not essential.
Better yet, call Ms. Morrison and ask her to come and read it to them.”
Better yet, call Ms. Morrison and ask her to come and read it to them.”
grammargirl replied on Aug 24, 2009 at 19:06:19
“You gotta be kidding.”
FirstBiteBooks replied on Aug 24, 2009 at 18:33:35
“Why not? We can also add Beyonce and Tina Turner who can accompany the reading with singing and dancing. [eyeball roll]”
Dose of Truth: Five Facts About Health Care Reform
Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 14:37:26 in Politics
“Men in leather chaps and feather boas? Don't tease me, now. Oh wait! I'm straight. I think.”
Ensign: I Did Nothing "Legally Wrong"
Commented Aug 20, 2009 at 00:00:00 in Politics
“Ensign just told his wife and family and constituenst that he is likely to do it again.”
Huckabee Offers Palestinians State "Some Place Else"
Commented Aug 19, 2009 at 23:32:32 in World
“Wow. So now Palestinians are illegal immigrants in their own country? There was no Jewish state in 1948 until Britain and the U.S. partitioned the Palestinian territory and created the state of Israel. If you want to talk about historic lands, then, okay, blow the whistle, everybody out of the pool!. Let us give the Ameircan continent back to the Native Americans. Let us resettle all Black people in Africa and all white people in Europe.
Egypt is practicing apartheid against the Palestinians? So Egypt built the wall and is witholding a ton of Palestinian money so that children are starving? When the Palestinian people freely elected Hamas to lead them, it was the U.S. and Israel that refused to recognize a democratically elected government. Hamas is a terrorist organization? So was the U.S. military when it invaded Iraq under George '43. Israel is in violation of so many U.N. resolutions for so long that no one can accurately count them. How do you get around the resolution that says combatant nations cannot keep land gain during the conflict?
Israel has the right to exist simply because it does. It has the right to do that in peace. So do the Palestinians. They will never be able to destroy Israel, so this charade of denying them their homeland and statehood until they acknowledge Israel's right to exist is just a land-grab smokescreen.
Now, do you want to talk about nuclear weapons?”
Egypt is practicing apartheid against the Palestinians? So Egypt built the wall and is witholding a ton of Palestinian money so that children are starving? When the Palestinian people freely elected Hamas to lead them, it was the U.S. and Israel that refused to recognize a democratically elected government. Hamas is a terrorist organization? So was the U.S. military when it invaded Iraq under George '43. Israel is in violation of so many U.N. resolutions for so long that no one can accurately count them. How do you get around the resolution that says combatant nations cannot keep land gain during the conflict?
Israel has the right to exist simply because it does. It has the right to do that in peace. So do the Palestinians. They will never be able to destroy Israel, so this charade of denying them their homeland and statehood until they acknowledge Israel's right to exist is just a land-grab smokescreen.
Now, do you want to talk about nuclear weapons?”
Yale Chickens Out On Academic Freedom
Commented Aug 19, 2009 at 11:24:54 in Media
“I am more than happy to have available an academic study of child pornography that does not include any pictures of child pornography. Yes, illustrations of the Prophet Mohammed would be just as incendiary and offensive to some of his adherents.”
Huckabee Offers Palestinians State "Some Place Else"
Commented Aug 18, 2009 at 18:13:57 in World
“Americans will not get the irony. They still think that white folks were created on the North American continent and that native people (indians) were illegal immigrants. Manifest Destiny is, to them, a combustible engine part.
Wouldn't you think that a people targeted for genocide, placed in ghettos and concentration camps, displaed from their homes, businesses and geography, would have some empathy for a people similarly treated on their behalf and by them. As bad, let us not forget that Israel trained the South African police and military in how to enforce apartheid against the indigenous black population.
Israel is a rogue state in every sense of the phrase. It practices apartheid againt the Palestinian people.”
Wouldn't you think that a people targeted for genocide, placed in ghettos and concentration camps, displaed from their homes, businesses and geography, would have some empathy for a people similarly treated on their behalf and by them. As bad, let us not forget that Israel trained the South African police and military in how to enforce apartheid against the indigenous black population.
Israel is a rogue state in every sense of the phrase. It practices apartheid againt the Palestinian people.”
mommamia526 replied on Aug 18, 2009 at 18:50:36
“Oh? Interesting. Jewish Israelis complain that Arabs in their midst get preferential treatment. There is a difference, you know, between the Palestinians who live in Lebanon, in the PA territory and those in Gaza and even Jordan and actual residents/citizens of Israel. Palestinians who are citizens have every right other Israelis have. Why they are even in the Knesset, where they are uttering *opinions* against the State of Israel of which they are part. In any other country this would be considered TREASON, but in Israel they are speaking up freely, even agitating with persons from other nations, such as Syria, without repercussions. *The Palestinian People* do not have a nation, a government, or anything else that makes them a nation. They wish to create a nation for themselves, even though they have a nation already east of the river Jordan. Egypt practices *apartheid* against the same group of *Palestinians* and Gaza used to be Egyptian territory, but the borders with Egypt are closed for the Palestinians in Gaza. Who can understand it? In the U.S. there are legal immigrants from South America, and there are illegal immigrants from South America, and a few others who want to come in. Should all these (would be) immigrants, legal immigrants, and those who have lived here for generations and are citizens be treated under one umbrella? And, should the U.S. grant them their own country right inside the U.S.?”
Bill O'Reilly: Higher Canadian Life Expectancy "To Be Expected" Because "We Have 10 Times As Many People"
Commented Jul 29, 2009 at 14:38:14 in Media
“This from the Tonight show with Johnny Carson:
A couple from the big city were driving through the countryside and happened upon an idylllic little town. They walked around for awhile and encountered a resident sitting on his porch.
"Great town you have here," said the visitors.
"Well, thank you. We like it all right," replied the resident.
"Can you tell us," asked the visitors, "what is the death rate here."
"Oh, same as elsewhere," replied the resident, "one per person."”
A couple from the big city were driving through the countryside and happened upon an idylllic little town. They walked around for awhile and encountered a resident sitting on his porch.
"Great town you have here," said the visitors.
"Well, thank you. We like it all right," replied the resident.
"Can you tell us," asked the visitors, "what is the death rate here."
"Oh, same as elsewhere," replied the resident, "one per person."”
johndtuttle replied on Jul 29, 2009 at 15:15:08
“Except in Wasilla. There its lower IQ that leads to facts not killing you.”
Obama Vacation Adds To Vineyard's African-American History
Commented Jul 24, 2009 at 12:03:22 in Style
“I am African-American and vacationed on the vineyard many summers in the 1980's and '90's with family and friends. I was there when the Clinton's came and when former Yale President Bart Giamatti died at the vineyard hospital. I called several of my younger friends who had been students under his tenure and thought the world of him. I remeber walking past Dorothy West's house to the beach with her book, The Wedding, under my arm and seeing the sign cautioning would-be visitors to call for an appointment with the aged lady rather than just dropping in. Just several steps away was the home of a former wife of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. They bought it together in the 1930's, and his biography revealed that his fishing pole still hung on the wall there where he left it 50 years earlie before going off to become the congressmanf from Harlem.
Oak Bluffs is the intensely historically Balck part of the island, and some blacks chose to live in other parts of the island for reasons I will not share here. But I am glad that so many academical
Oak Bluffs is the intensely historically Balck part of the island, and some blacks chose to live in other parts of the island for reasons I will not share here. But I am glad that so many academical
Stop the Sexist Rants on Palin!
Commented Jul 07, 2009 at 22:12:53 in Politics
“Because Sarah Palin holds and espouses social and political views that seek to repress the freedom of other women does not justify me denying her right to personal dignity as a human being and particularly as a woman.”
National Review Cover Portrays Obama As A Proctologist (POLL)
Commented Jul 06, 2009 at 20:10:10 in Media
“This leftist remembers when he use to read the NR for its articles. Now it seems that like Playboy, people read it for its pictures.”
President Obama's Clear Abuse Of Power Cited By...Senator Obama
Commented Jun 27, 2009 at 12:43:42 in Home
“I took President Obabma's campaign assault on signing statements as criticism of their multiplicity and cavalier issue by President Bush. At no time did President Obama state that he would not use them. At his rate, he is in danger of issuing 96 against 1,100 issued by President Bush.
When Congress needed to curtail the power of the presidency to start a war, whene were its members? Falling all over themselves to grant authoity to kill or maim thousands of Americans and Iraqis. President Obama asks that he simply be allowed to look and talk before he shoots, and Congress votes no. So he uses his legal authority to re-assert his position and is denigrated because he is not a legal idealist or choirboy. Well, in voting for him, I voted for neither. I voted for a decent man who would make legal and ethical decisions whether I agreed with them or not.
I have some serious issues and disagreements with President Obama about DOMA and "Don't ask, don't tell." He is dead wrong and troubling to me about indefinite detention. But this issue of signing statements comes up nowhere on my radar.”
When Congress needed to curtail the power of the presidency to start a war, whene were its members? Falling all over themselves to grant authoity to kill or maim thousands of Americans and Iraqis. President Obama asks that he simply be allowed to look and talk before he shoots, and Congress votes no. So he uses his legal authority to re-assert his position and is denigrated because he is not a legal idealist or choirboy. Well, in voting for him, I voted for neither. I voted for a decent man who would make legal and ethical decisions whether I agreed with them or not.
I have some serious issues and disagreements with President Obama about DOMA and "Don't ask, don't tell." He is dead wrong and troubling to me about indefinite detention. But this issue of signing statements comes up nowhere on my radar.”
Rob Warmowski replied on Jun 27, 2009 at 13:31:02
“Well, there's no doubt the issue came up on the President's own radar, since the opening quote in my post shows while on the campaign trail he specifically called out the abusive nature of signing statements that are used by the Executive to avoid accountability.
June 24th's reversal on that principle is what has rightfully denigrated the President's credibility, which is a greater problem than the violation of a campaign promise. Unlike Bush, this President is a leading Constitutional scholar. In my opinion, he betrays that training when he accepts and fosters, rather than reverses, gross imbalance of powers.”
June 24th's reversal on that principle is what has rightfully denigrated the President's credibility, which is a greater problem than the violation of a campaign promise. Unlike Bush, this President is a leading Constitutional scholar. In my opinion, he betrays that training when he accepts and fosters, rather than reverses, gross imbalance of powers.”
Gays to Obama: "We've Seen Enough"
Commented Jun 19, 2009 at 02:40:30 in Politics
“Any African-American or woman should know better than to tell gays and lesbians to wait, to be patient. Why should they? Friends and supporters in congress and the White House are useless if they are not pushed, prodded, cajoled and threatened. Gays and Lesbians should do whatever they feel is appropiate to get President Obama to act decisively and swiftly to bring them social justice.
Here's the problem.
Politicians are behind the curve, not in front of it. They will only act decisvely on social issues when they are certain that they have personal opinion their side. Women and chiildren being beaten, attacked by dogs and sprayed with water hoses gave President Johnson gereat cover to sign numerous pieces of civil rights legislation. The personal experiences of family members of women discriminated against gave cover for legislation empowering women. The issue of homosexuality is not as accessible to the American public as one engendering empathy. It should be, but it is not.
Americans have to see and feel the injustice against homosexulas in order to rally en masse to their support. The gay and lesbian community and their supporters for social justice may need to spend some time figuring out how to achieve that.”
Here's the problem.
Politicians are behind the curve, not in front of it. They will only act decisvely on social issues when they are certain that they have personal opinion their side. Women and chiildren being beaten, attacked by dogs and sprayed with water hoses gave President Johnson gereat cover to sign numerous pieces of civil rights legislation. The personal experiences of family members of women discriminated against gave cover for legislation empowering women. The issue of homosexuality is not as accessible to the American public as one engendering empathy. It should be, but it is not.
Americans have to see and feel the injustice against homosexulas in order to rally en masse to their support. The gay and lesbian community and their supporters for social justice may need to spend some time figuring out how to achieve that.”
When Barack Took Michelle to NYC -- No Big Deal When You're POTUS
Commented Jun 08, 2009 at 22:40:09 in Living
“With two daughters in middle-school, she a teacher in a public school and me an advocate for parents with children in public school, living in Co-op City, we managed dinner and the Broadway play or Alvin Ailey several times a year. Or we would simply walk across the way on a weeknight to the multiplex for a movie, Thousands if not millions of couples routinely make arrangements every year for child-care and dog walking so tha tthey can spend some date time together. We call for our own tickets, we drive our own car, and we arrive home to the added joy of picking up toys or washing dishes left by children and their babysitters. It is all part of the package. If you will later worry about the money spent on dinner and a play, then don't spend it. Rent a movie, microwave some popcorn, or justr settle in for an evening of board games with the children, or an eveniing of candlelight, tne-dollar a bottle wine, Johnny Hartman and Nancy Wilson.
I could find a dozen reasons why I fell out of love with my wife and lost my marriage. Money and romance and inconvenience do not make that list.”
I could find a dozen reasons why I fell out of love with my wife and lost my marriage. Money and romance and inconvenience do not make that list.”
Daniel James Murray Charged With Making Threats Against Obama In Utah
Commented Jun 05, 2009 at 09:41:05 in Politics
“Yeah. The Gitmo detainees will be in isolation even from each other. So that conversion thing that they will do through telepathy and osmosis should be seized by some American company and patented. It will solve the American deficit and the debt on the taxes alone, and it will end forever this namby-pamby democracy stuff that these pie-in-the-sky Americans have been fawning over these few recent centuries.
If a gitmo detainee can convert an otherwise non-violent extremist to his cause, then the fault lies not in the stars, but truly in us.”
If a gitmo detainee can convert an otherwise non-violent extremist to his cause, then the fault lies not in the stars, but truly in us.”
Obama, Senate Dems Consider Public Health Care Option With A Trigger
Commented Jun 02, 2009 at 17:46:24 in Politics
“Republicans, conservatives and the political right generally are so fond of telling us how inefficiently the government runs things and how the private sector does it so well. If that is true, then what is the private sector afraid of with a public option? Let the two compete for consumers and see who wins. One will be out to make the biggest profit and the other will be out to make the biggest difference. One will be trying to find ways to get around giving coverage to people with prior health condiitions and the other will not. One will tell your doctor what he or she can treat and the other will not. One will toss claims in the garbage, saying they never got them, and the other will pay the same claim twice (and then set up a sub-bureacracy to get the money back, which they will, but only after outsourcing it to the private sector for a percenatage of the recovered monies.)
How do you get a single payer system? Start with a public option.”
How do you get a single payer system? Start with a public option.”
This Playboy Article Deserves Scorn from the Left
Commented Jun 02, 2009 at 16:57:43 in Media
“And my point is that if you seek to have sex with a woman that you would not otherwise engage because she is not likeable, then you are treating her solely as a sexual object. I did that once over forty years ago and regretted it almost immediately afterwards and to this day. It made me physically ill. I know that men and women do that to each other almost routinely now, and fine if it is mutual between the people involved. But for one person to publicly target and personally identify another as a candidate for that practice by masses of other people is distasteful to say the least. If he heard someone referencing his mother that way, he would probably want to maim him. Call me weird - no, seriously, call me that. It's my middle name - but I have often found the dinner before sex, the drink afterwards, the surprise phone call months later and the warm Christmas card ritual years later to be just on-going elation from that brief sexual encounter. There is something to be said for being to look your former lovers in the eye - and at yourself in the mirror.”
This Playboy Article Deserves Scorn from the Left
Commented Jun 02, 2009 at 13:35:39 in Media
“Let me get this straight: Members of the political left should condemn an article that raves in rather sophmoric language about a juvenile fantasy of bedding some women on the poliitcal right.
Hmmm. Does the article state that the writer wants to bed them against their will? Rape them? Then, indeed, such an act of violence, even if just proposed in jest, should be condemned immediately and without equivocation. But the article writer did not suggest that, did he? And is the article writer at all factual in his assessments? Does Malkin wear clothing of a cliched sexual fantasy nature? Does Bachman possibly hit higher notes to express her satisfaction with an intimate partner than the shrill ones she makes in her denigraton of Democrats and liberals? Where is the defamation of character or womanhood here?
It is in the treating of women as merely sexual objects of pleasure, devoid of humanity, intellect,, physical and sexual integrity. Personally, I find nothing sexually attractive about those two women or any woman on the poliitically conservative right. I cannot separate their physicality from their other attributes, and I cannot do that out of common and unshakable respect for them as human beings- and all the moreso because they are seriously defective ones.
Playboy can take back the placing of ill-considered articles; too bad murderers cannot take back the ill-considered placing of their bullets.”
Hmmm. Does the article state that the writer wants to bed them against their will? Rape them? Then, indeed, such an act of violence, even if just proposed in jest, should be condemned immediately and without equivocation. But the article writer did not suggest that, did he? And is the article writer at all factual in his assessments? Does Malkin wear clothing of a cliched sexual fantasy nature? Does Bachman possibly hit higher notes to express her satisfaction with an intimate partner than the shrill ones she makes in her denigraton of Democrats and liberals? Where is the defamation of character or womanhood here?
It is in the treating of women as merely sexual objects of pleasure, devoid of humanity, intellect,, physical and sexual integrity. Personally, I find nothing sexually attractive about those two women or any woman on the poliitically conservative right. I cannot separate their physicality from their other attributes, and I cannot do that out of common and unshakable respect for them as human beings- and all the moreso because they are seriously defective ones.
Playboy can take back the placing of ill-considered articles; too bad murderers cannot take back the ill-considered placing of their bullets.”
JimmyTee replied on Jun 02, 2009 at 17:41:04
“Yeah, what's wrong with "hate-fuck," right, Lee?”
BlackJAC replied on Jun 02, 2009 at 15:15:32
“The women mentioned in that article all lack the likeability required to make someone want to hang out with them for non-sexual reasons, which was the entire point of the article in the first place.”
Speaking Out on Segregated Proms
Commented May 28, 2009 at 13:08:56 in Living
“Allow for the possibility that there are Black students and parent who are also in favor of segregated proms.
The failure of the school system in Montgomery County is to provide for those students who want an integrated prom, however poorly attended it might be - at first. I suspect that there are students who do not attend (or do grugdingly attend) either prom because they are segregated. What about those students?”
The failure of the school system in Montgomery County is to provide for those students who want an integrated prom, however poorly attended it might be - at first. I suspect that there are students who do not attend (or do grugdingly attend) either prom because they are segregated. What about those students?”
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