Republican Disingenuousness

As always, Rachel Maddow is on top of the latest chicanery from Republicans. And, as always, Republicans do not disappoint in showing that they are masters of flagrant prevarication and have the audacity to repeatedly iterate the lie that they collectively agree upon. The lies they propagate, including those statements made today by no one other than McCain, besmirch the whole principle of a democracy. Suddenly, to them, fifty-one votes in the senate do not count as a majority. The normal is now sixty. What's next, Republicans? A two-thirds majority to pass everything? We have never been at war with Eastasia? 2 + 2 = 5?

Stop rewriting history and stop lying to the American people. Sure, a lot of them are misinformed and misled by you and your Fox News propaganda machine, but still... have you no decency, at long last?! Accept that you are in the minority and get to work on trying to regain your majority. Until then, let the majority that has been democratically elected do its work. Let them pass bills through a simple majority, as normal senatorial rules and political, legislative decency dictate. Stop naming things 'nuclear.' The cold war is over.

Just watch. I'm too exhausted to get into the technicalities of it. I said my piece.

Golden Girls for Girly Boys

According to this nitwit, The Golden Girls made a whole generation of American boys gay....

Oh no!

I wish I had a quick Sophia- or Dorothy-like comeback to this, but I'm dry....

Democracy Inaction

If democracy means having the Senate in a Republican chokehold and therefore not being able to pass 290 bills that have already passed the House, Democrats had better rethink things and grow some testicular glands....

(Found through Think Progress)

Machiavellian Machinations

Paul Krugman had an editorial in today's New York Times that, in a few words, summarized and articulated what I have always known about post-Reagan Republicans and their willingness to bring the country to the verge of total collapse. Not to mention their hypocrisy of speaking against government expansion and expanding it since Reagan.

«Avis»

La nuit qui précéda sa mort
Fut la plus courte de sa vie
L'idée qu'il existait encore
Lui brûlait le sang aux poignets
Le poids de son corps l'écœurait
Sa force le faisait gémir
C'est tout au fond de cette horreur
Qu'il a commencé à sourire
Il n'avait pas UN camarade
Mais des millions et des millions
Pour le venger Il le savait
Et le jour se leva pour lui.

1942

Paul ÉLUARD

Society and Homosexuals: A 1967 Perspective

How far has our society come with regard to its views on homosexuality?

Not far enough, if you ask me, and if you watch the video below from 1967. That goes for the bigots, heterosexuals, and homosexuals alike in this video and in society today.

Found in The Daily Dish.

Resounding Words from 1861

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham LINCOLN

Child Molestation in the Catholic Church

We don't need to do any soul-searching or any philosophical analyses to realize why this was (and perhaps is and always will be) a rampant phenomenon in the Catholic church. It is a church that demands celibacy of its priests, thus isolating them from the get-go in an unnatural world where they have to suppress their natural feelings and impulses. At the same time, it is indicative of the empty promises it makes and its failure to deliver on those promises.

The fact that most of the abuse was carried out on boys is no surprise and it should not be attributed to homosexuality, for it is the direct result of the church's promise to 'cure the gay' through whatever means it proposes, one of which is dedicating one's life entirely to the church. These individuals may have initially been confused and conflicted themselves about their sexuality and hoped to find answers and solace in the church that 'supported' and welcomed them with open arms, only to later find themselves still conflicted and confused and, what's worse, even abusive, after a few years in the clergy.

This heinous scandal also highlights the hypocrisy that has always existed in organized religion. All its representatives preach to us about punishment in hell and redemption in heaven, yet they fail to fear the same hell for actions as depraved as child abuse. These are not isolated lapses in judgment or self-control; these are repeated actions of recidivistic, deluded sexual maniacs.

«Dua më shumë Shqipërinë»

Kënduar nga grupi «Lira».

Teksti dhe videoja më poshtë. Pamjet e videos i kam marrë vetë në Drenovë. Ndonëse jo krejt të përshtatshme për këngën, përsëri nuk janë keq për të kullotur sytë.

Dua mëngjezë e majit

kur këndon bilbili i bukur,

kur fryn erëza e malit

edhe qarku është i skuqur.

Dua lulet e fushës

në mëngjes kur janë plot me vesë;

doçkat e bardha të çupës

vete me vrap që t'i pres.

Po nga gjith' ato më parë

dua më shumë Shqipërinë

që të vejë puna mbarë

edhe përjetë të ketë lirinë.

Dua natën në verë

kur të ndritin yjt' e artë,

kur fryn Zefiri me erë

veç dëfren kët' zemrën e zjarrtë.

Zogjtë që ëmbël ligjërojnë

nëpër lisat mbushur me fletë

o sa gas që mua më bëjnë

për natyrën e vërtetë....

Po nga gjith' ato më parë

dua më shumë Shqipërinë

që të vejë puna mbarë

edhe përjetë të ketë lirinë!

The Sanctity of Marriage

Marriage is not genuine love, a shared life, commitment, family, children, grandchildren, or any of those silly, sappy, little things; it's a question of anatomical composition—you don't have to use them to have children, but you do need a penis on one person and a vagina on the other. Just that and nothing else.

Source: The Daily Dish

Republican Hypocrisy

I wish I had kept count of all posts related to Republican hypocrisy, but alas! I haven't.... I would have lost count long ago, anyway....

Here's the latest from one of the few genuinely journalistic voices on television, Rachel Maddow:

What Republicans are All About

I'm not a Democrat and I hope those of you who don't know me will take my word for it. I am, however, much more in line with their way of thinking and their actions than I am with those of Republicans. Why?

Well, look at the video below and see what they're standing up for. And then skip below the video and see what self-identified Republicans around the country are thinking nowadays.

No, siree, Bob, I ain't no Republican....

A portrait of Republicans across the nation.