Yes We're Nosy

For a Washington Job, Be Prepared to Tell All

Methinks this rules all dose posting here out...

what's a little election-rigging if it means we got to keep the guys who were protecting our liberties?

Florida in 2000 you know all about. But did you ever seriously focus on Ohio 2004?
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No soup for you.

Should have seen this earlier, but I didn't hear about this 8/18 case until yesterday. Physicians refused to perform an artificial insemination procedure on a patient because she was a lesbian, arguing that it was against their religious beliefs. Nice. They lost, with the court arguing that you can't pick and choose which laws you want to follow based on your religious beliefs. Their are laws against discrimination in for-profit businesses. Physicians argued that if it wasn't jeopardizing public safety or licentious, they should be able to argue their religion prevented them from a a certain procedure.

The best part is that after the whole thing started to unravel on them, they argued that they were discriminating against the woman because she was unmarried, not based on their religious beliefs. Stay classy, San Diego.

Why even have the public safety provision. I aspire one day to be a doctor, who looks deeply into the eyes of my patients and merely tells them "this is God's will." I won't even need to go to med school.

cuz we believe in, like, freedom an' s#i+...

It started innocently enough: Qatar-based al-Jazeera decided it would film the locals in Golden, the home of Coors beer, as they watched the convention from a biker bar Wednesday night. This would allow al-Jazeera's viewers to see Bill Clinton and Joe Biden through the eyes of those in a small American town that could pass as a set for a Hollywood Western.

City leaders at first offered to host a pork-free barbecue for the Jazeera crew, then abandoned that plan when angry residents protested. But the Buffalo Rose, a 150-year-old saloon here catering to bikers, offered to let al-Jazeera broadcast from its bar.

The result: a sort of 21st-century shootout at the O.K. Corral on Wednesday night under the shadow of Lookout Mountain, where Buffalo Bill is buried.

Word spread that three rival biker gangs -- the Sons of Silence, the Banditos and the Hell's Angels -- declared a truce for the night so they could meet at the Buffalo Rose in a united protest against al-Jazeera. But the network stood its ground and set up its cameras.

Across the street from the bar, two dozen protesters under the watchful eye of a statue of Adolph Coors waved American flags, blew air horns and revved motorcycle engines. "Al Jazeera is terrorism," announced one sign. "Go home, Al Jazeera -- Voices for al Qaeda and bin Laden," proclaimed another. The protesters had shirts printed up for the occasion, saying "Buffalo Rose/Tokyo Rose" in English and Arabic, although they botched the Arabic translation.

One biker covered his T-shirt in thoughtful, handwritten messages, such as "Islam Sucks" and "Al-Jazeera: Anti-American Pond Scum."
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The regulars at Buffalo Rose took the Qatari invasion, and the demonstration, in stride. "Al-Jazeera? Is he here? Where is he?" inquired Travis Henry, sipping a Bud Light. (Of course he was... Ed.)
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The leader of this would-be terrorist cell: al-Jazeera's Josh Rushing, a Texas-born Marine veteran who wears blue jeans and cowboy boots. "I guess you could call it a mild jihad for the truth," said Rushing, sipping a latte. (Of course he was... Ed.) Wearily, he added, "This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened."
. . .

City Manager Mike Bestor, before he rescinded his barbecue offer, called the al-Jazeera visit a way to "show Arab viewers what Americans are like." For better or worse, Golden seems to be doing just that...
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sage advice for LoC bloggers

From the unhinged Michael Pfleger:

"This is a dangerous time in America, the freest country in the world," Pfleger says, "where you have to whisper your thoughts."

Hosni "Dick, Dick, Dick" Mubarak

Another U.S. supported fascist dictator cracks down.

Business as usual

Zimbabwe bans Western monitors

"Clearly, those who believe that the only free and fair election is where the opposition wins have been excluded since the ruling party, Zanu-PF, is poised to score yet another triumph," Mr Mumbengegwi told the state-owned Herald newspaper.

So, because the ruling party's gonna win, and those pesky westerners would say that the ruling party cheated, they're not allowed in. Meanwhile, the minions of Hugo, Ahmadinewotsit, Putin I mean Medvedev and best of all, the Sudan, will be allowed to "observe".

So, nothing will change. The ruling party will win, the west will say they stole it, and it's business as usual.

Oh, and now the Brits are mulling a ban on Zimbabwean sportsmen (and women). Oh no, we didn't mean all sports. We just meant cricket, which, as we've found on this blog, nobody cares about. Are you phokking kidding me? Is that the best they can do? Ban the Zimbabwean cricket team from touring England? Because the President apparently is the patron of Zimbabwe cricket and loves to watch? That's supposed to make him change his mind? Stop phokking nitpicking. Either go all the way or do nothing. Leave em alone, or invade. You know, regime change. Iraqi style. What, they have no weapons of mass destruction? No oil? So phokk em?

keeping America safe from Americans

Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison

More than one in 100 adult Americans is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year, in addition to more than $5 billion spent by the federal government... With more than 2.3 million people behind bars at the start of 2008, the United States leads the world in both the number and the percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving even far more populous China a distant second, noted the report by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States.

The ballooning prison population is largely the result of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s. Minorities have been hit particularly hard: One in nine black men age 20 to 34 is behind bars...

if we can't censor it, we'll just have to destroy it

While there is much diversity in the style of Internet censorship among the world's worst offenders, one common thread unites them: Internet censorship doesn't work.

but the important thing is, socialized medicine isn't encroaching on our God-given freedom

ER waits dangerously long in U.S.: study
One-Quarter of Heart Attack Patients Wait 50 Minutes or Longer

just because the gubmint can't (legally) crack down on "freedom" of the "press" doesn't mean the "free press" can't crack down on itself

Al Jazeera's Struggle for U.S. Airtime

Note that the first commenter has almost certainly never watched a minute of Al Jazeera.

He has a point. If meeeellllions (beeeeeeelllllions?) of people are getting "news" we don't like, it's best that we remain ignorant of it.

who's hating America today? (cont'd)

"If we lose sight of liberty in an effort to defeat our enemies, the price may have been too high."
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

just when you think you've explored every hidden cove in the dark icy caverns of his titanic idiocy, you find a whole new wing you never knew about

"If you lived in Iraq and had lived under a tyranny, you’d be saying: God, I love freedom, because that’s what’s happened."

-- RezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziDUNCE

Let Freedom Ring...ok, how about a faint sound way off in the distance

News Headline: "Pakistan's Musharraf declares emergency, suspends constitution."

Or look at it this way: Shouldn't we be flattered that he is following President Bush's example?

In related news:

News Item: "No e-mail privacy rights under Constitution, U.S. government claims."

We're all Russians now

Da Mare is McLovin' it...

"NYC mayor: Get used to surveillance"

Note also that USA Today is calculating expenditures in Euros. And that's the McPaper? My phokking @ss.

We are living in Russia (cont'd)

Anybody here read anything unapproved lately? Smiff?