What Could They Be Thinking?
via Privacy Partners WTF?
Planned Parenthood = Black Genocide?
http://blackgenocide.org Stonefly‘s comment, “Pro-lifers trying to take another angle, and this one really pisses me off. Is a black woman’s right to chose qualitatively different? Lets talk a bout black feminism shall we? What do we suppose bell hooks has to say about all of this? Black genocide my ass.” Yeah, I’m outraged too.
Baptist Prays for God to Kill Obama
This one falls under the See-Didn’t-I-Tell-You-This-Would-Happen department.
Should vaccines be compulsory?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/03/should-vaccines-be-compulsory/ I don’t think the government should be able to tell it’s citizens what it can and cannot put into their own bodies, but I do think that it’s important for parents to be educated and voluntarily have their children vaccinated to prevent illness and future outbreaks.
Gay Rights and the Catholic Church
Why should we be concerned with diversity among the Supreme Court? Why does it matter if Sotomayor will be the sixth Catholic on the nine-member court? So you don’t have to read the entire article, I’m pulling the following excerpt from Catholic Answers Special Report on Gay Marriage, but feel free to read the whole thing at your leisure. They
Discrimation against Atheists? Believe it.
I expect this sort of thing from Fox News, but this is certainly not fair and unbiased news reporting. What an unbalanced and ignorant panel. Unbelievable.
Jesusland map
via Wikipedia * “United States of Liberty & Education/Canada”, Canada plus blue states * “Jesusland”, red states
First women elected to Kuwait parliament
First women elected to Kuwait parliament! • Fundamentalist groups lose ground in Kuwait polls • Four candidates returned in ‘sweeping victory for women’ “The victory marked the first time women have won parliamentary seats since given the right to vote and run for office in 2005. For the past 50 years Kuwait’s parliament has been the sole preserve of men.”
Grace for President
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0786839198/ I saw this book at the bookstore the other day and it made me smile! Hooray for Grace!
NY eases drug laws, sees annual savings of $250 mln
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN277377720090327 “New York state relaxed harsh Rockefeller drug laws from the 1970s that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes and will let judges send addicts to treatment programs… estimated this will save the state about “a quarter of a billion dollars” a year.”
Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill to the Press
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/02/get_up_stand_up_ammiano_introd.php 25-year Judge James P. Gray on the Orange County Superior Court said, “The most harmful thing about marijuana today is prison – and also the most expensive.”
Goodbye, Don the Con!
And good riddance! The Flint Journal announced that Mayor, Don Williamson has officially resigned from office, citing medical issues such as multiple sinus infections and kidney stones. If you've been following my blog, you know how I feel about Don the Con, and that we were part of the recall efforts, gathering petition signatures, donating time and money to ensure
Two for Tuesday – Out With the Old, In With the New
Inauguration Speech Part II Inauguration Speech Part III Or, watch the whole thing in it's entirety with a couple short ads over at MSNBC.