February 27, 2004
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I really enojy this blog by Mike02. Really I enojy all his entries, even though he posts so often in the course of a day, sometimes I miss a few. He says the things everyone else is too afraid to say about the news and politics. If Mike was running for president, I’d vote for him. He’s like the George Carlin of the blogging community.
Currently he’s commenting on the Consitutional Amendment that Bush is trying to foist on the public. This isn’t a new topic. People have been talking about it for weeks, but Mike made note of some ulterior motives that come into play with this nonsense. He says, “Bush knows that he will never get a CA [constitutional amendment] passed, it’s very difficult, through the congress, ratified by the states, yadda, yadda, yadda. When Newt and company tried passing the Contract with America in the early 90′s they threw in term limits as a CA [constitutional amendment] knowing full well it wouldn’t get anywhere. Bush is doing the same.”
Mike02 intimates that Bush is doing this to please his loyal religious/homophobic supporters and motivate them to vote for him. And he’s also doing it to link Democrats with gay marriage so that anyone who would have voted democrat will vote republican if gay marriage displeases them.
I can come up with at least one more reason.
Notice we haven’t heard about Bush’s actions in the Middle East of late. All this gays shouldn’t marry nonsense is clearly a distraction. Really, so long as they’re not hurting anyone, gays should be allowed to do whatever the heck they want. This is supposedly a free country after all. But maybe it’s just a little freer for some folk than others.
They (Bush and his regime) used 9-11 as an excuse to launch a war in the Middle East despite the fact that they knew something was going to happen long before that moment and intentionally failed to prevent it. They wanted something to happen so that they would have a superficial reason to attack people who had nothing to do with 9-11. Boy did they mess up.
Yes, the terrorists came from the middle east and needed to be stopped, but waging war on innocent people who just happened to share their religion was just as much a violation of human rights as Saddam’s inhumane rule and Bin Laden’s actions against us.
This needs to be remembered by anyone who might think to vote for Bush in the upcoming election. I don’t care who the heck you vote for, just don’t vote for him.
The only reason he is not as big a sociopath as Saddam and Bin Laden is that his hands are tied by social conformity. He is a hate-mongering bigot who should not be given the power to control other people’s lives, ours or the lives of people in other countries.
We (everyone I’ve ever spoken to) didn’t vote for him the first time. We sure as heck don’t want him in again. I really don’t see how he can get re-elected short of fraud (everyone remembers Florida, yes?). Is this all a conspiracy to undermine our faith in the electoral system so everyone stops voting entirely? I wouldn’t be surprised.
I will say finally…
There is no reason to limit the rights of gays, any more than there is reason to limit other minority groups… like African Americans, non-Christian religious groups, unwed mothers, etc etc etc etc.
Really if you want my opinion, I’m heterosexual (for want of a better label) but I can say without irony that we should probably encourage homosexuality. We have some 6 billion people on this planet… eating up resources, destroying natural wonders like the rainforest and the oceans, killing one another over territory and supplies. Don’t you think homosexuality is a reasonable choice over abortion and birth limitations like you find in China? Not everyone can be a thirty year old virgin like me. heh
Comments (10)
I personally believe in this war against Iraq, although I KNOW its basically Bush trying to fix his father mistakes(i personally think that the first one was a coward and puppet). I just want Saddam, the taliban and Bin ladin captured and those countries freed with a gov of there own. The fundamentalist corrupt the Koran and control and degrade women in the name of “God”. Trust me, Christians and alot of other religions did it to and they all have their extremist sectors. But war is hell and we should only go into it for the last straw. I know theres alot of shit going on underneath the surface with everything but, i the immortal words of my friend jayce, there’s not such things as a “good” pres.
Me, now i have no problems with homosexuals being who they are. But im thinking that this thing is all about health insurance and stuff like that. Think about it, now any 2 ppl can marry falsely for health insurance!!! Now thats pretty bad. I think about it…. they can go to any church, etc and get married b4 there gods, then why do they need a piece of paper form the american gov?????? just a thought.
For the earth…….. we’re all going to blow eachother up anyway and the earth will spring back, with or without humans.
:cthulhu: <—– I just like him!
I will check out your recommened Blog site.
Florida? Bill Maher explained it rather nicely: he didn’t still those votes, they fell of the back of a truck. :goodjob:
Could it be that people who so strongly oppose gay marriages have unresolved sexuality issues themselves?
Reasons why two people (straight or not) want to get married are not of anyone’s concern but theirs. Issue of gay marriages should not be a legal or a religious issue.
well written, as always:)
Don’t know about encouraging homosexuality, but I’ve often thought that the biggest benefit of lesbianism is not worrying about getting pregnant. People should enjoy the natural benefits of their sexuality.
Special interest rights are at the expense of human rights; they divert attention from what is important and leave the bulk of us in a state of want. Whether one is gay or straight should be irrelevant – the issue is that humans deserve their needs to be fulfilled.
::cheers:: :goodjob:
Good points about Bush…I never thought I’d be *glad* about social conformity… :wha:
I’ll check out your recommended site!
(((Harmony!))) Of course, I ran right over to Mike02′s site…and commented there…*smile*
Insurance?? What?? Who cares?? Well, obviously some people. “Marry falsely”??? Okay…~that~ I have a problem with. People marry for many reasons. It is a huge assumption that gays would marry for insurance purposes. Why not yell about those who marry to make aliens legal?? Gays marry because they love one another. Sheesh. And like other people who love one another and bind that love with marriage, they should be given the same benefits. I suppose “arranged” marriages are okay, too, right? Without love? For the financial gain of two families? I don’t hear anyone yelling about that little issue.
Of course, this isn’t about the insurance or other benefits. It is about two people of the same sex getting married. True love is so damned hard to find, on this planet. I’ve been married twice…to…um…men…and divorced twice. I have a boyfriend who is terrified of marriage…because he’s terrified of divorce…and the financial repercussions. (Not that I’m in a hurry to remarry, after the other two.) Yes, I have loved women. My brain isn’t wired to say love can’t exist because the recipient is in a female body.
Perhaps that makes me biased…but what are all of our opinions based on, anyway? *smile*
Enough of this, for now. Blood-boiling is not a good thing while I am getting my caffiene fix…
Kat…I really came hear to say that I, too, “hear voices.” Not that I tell my shrink that, of course! LOL And I can hear them over (and in) the white noise. Not that anything I hear is enough for me to use in any way. *sigh* Just random voices…random phrases. As long as no one shouts at me, when I am trying to fall asleep, I don’t really mind, since I’ve put up with it, since I was a child. But voices…recorded, stored voices (!!!), from my computer speakers…oh, yeah! I have a problem with that! *getting a little shakey, just thinking about it!!*
Peace and Love…GFW
did I just lose all my credibility…a woman-loving, voice-hearing critic??? LOL
Love your site.
Anyways… While I agree that we should have removed Saddam Hussein and his cronies from power a long time ago, I don’t agree with going in the way it was done or for the reasons it was done for. No one can honestly say that Bush’s motivation lies behind world peace or a search for non-existent “WMD”. *cough-oil-cough* By going in with the wrong reasons, instead of accomplishing something positive for the world, the entire incident was negative from the start, and completely destroyed the U.S.’s credibility to every nation on the planet.
There’s a reason that only 15% of Canadians would even slightly consider wanting him running the country south of us. Few of us like him, even fewer trust him.
:goodjob:
Oh.. I forgot to mention that we have the U.S. government to thank for Hussein taking power. In the same way that we have the US to thank for 2 million deaths in Cambodia in the massacres. It was the US Gov that put the dictator in power there. The list goes on.