“The remedy is a constitutional amendment,” said Glen Lavy of the Alliance Defense Fund, which is pushing for the stay. In 2000, Proposition 22 passed with 61 percent of the voted, strengthening the state’s 1978 one-man, one-woman marriage law. The ruling struck down both statutes.
Awesome. Why not repeal gravity while you are at it? It’s not as if these asswipes will have to face a recall election for their tyranny. Interesting how Proposition 22 was perfectly fine for 8 years. Not to mention that the 1978 law was perfectly good for 3 decades.
It is becoming more and more clear that the advocates of “gay marriage” are perfectly willing to got to the courts to force their ideas on us. The old standard of raising awareness through the media and the court of public opinion is not good enough. Better that unelected, unaccountable judges should “interpret” the constitution to mean whatever they want it to mean. In this case, that everyone is entitled to be “happy”. Since when is happiness a basic human right?
Does anyone hear that? It’s the sound of Thomas Jefferson’s coffin spinning.
I wonder if this means if polygamists, bigamists and people who wish to marry their siblings will get their day in court. I doubt it. Don’t they have a “right” to be happy too?
You just can’t make these things up. Every single time there is a natural disaster, from Hurricane Katrina to the recent cyclone, these nutballs are quick to blame them on global warming. What’s next? Global warming causes impotence?
Since communism has worked so well in workers’ paradises like North Korea, Cuba, USSR (wait, never mind) the good people of Nepal have decided to go with it. Not just communism, but full-blown Maoism. Kind of like skipping HIV to go with full-blown AIDS. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
Good thing that these “new” commies are promising that they will not become a one-party state. They say that they want “pluralism”. Funny thing, since the entire basis of communism is a one-party system. There is no such thing as a pluralistic communist party. That is like saying that nazis would be interested in sharing power.
And let’s not forget that China abandoned Maoism as a spectacular failure. It only took tens of millions of dead Chinese to teach them that little lesson. A little lesson that Nepal may never learn on account of the fact that they don’t have that many people in their country.
Strange that people can believe the same old lies that wealth redistribution and collectivism. If anyone has any doubts about how evil and destructive communism is, enjoy the night photo of North Korea:
Especially since most of the public is so incredibly ignorant about the day to day our military has in Iraq. They get more information from Hollywood than they do from the people who live it.
Great, while these videos are obvious hackish attempts at propaganda from retarded children, at least they are as exciting to watch as paint drying. How about we let the soldiers put their unedited views up for the public to see? Should the Pentagon be afraid of what the troops think and do? Because the “wrong message” might get out?
That probably sounds better in the original German anyway.
The Supreme Court voted today to allow Illinois to require photo ID in order to vote. Seems like common sense to me. After all, everyone is required to show a form of photo ID in order to buy booze, cigarettes, drive, file their taxes, get a passport (TWO for that), buy, own or carry a gun, join the military, etc. Among many, many other things. Seems sensible to me that you should be required to show a photo ID in order to do the most important thing of all: cash in on your franchise as an American citizen.
Yet we have people who are convinced that requiring a photo ID in order to select our representatives, who make the laws, would be disenfranchised by this. Their reasoning is that some potential voters would be too poor to be able to afford the burden of a state-issued ID. Are there really that many people who are so poor that they cannot afford to get an ID card? So many that it would influence any election one way or the other? I have a hard time believing that.
To put it into perspective, the Illinois requirement for a state-issued photo ID is found here. The fee is $20 for a first-time five year ID card in Illinois. For those under 18 it is $10. For disabled or over 65 citizens it is totally free. Anyone who couldn’t come up with these documents is truly a sad sack. Or just the sort of voter the DNC has been looking for, apparently. Since they oppose any form of poll ID whatsoever.
Who knew the meth whores who blow gangbangers for the next score were a significant voting bloc? I didn’t know that. And I learned something new today.
Wah wah wah, cry me a river here. Shouldn’t stab and beat people to death if you want to continue to be a disgusting fatbody.
“About an hour after each meal my stomach starts to hurt and growl. I feel hungry again.”
He then goes on to complain about the lack of physical exercise, adding: “The only reason we lost weight in here is because we are literally being starved to death.”
Almost as stoopid is the mediots covering this as a “small business” concern. How big does a concern have to be to be considered a regular business anyway? When I think of a small business I think of the Pakistani owning the corner 7-11. Not someone making $38 million in one year.
Whatever the case, Wesley Snipes is the Stoopid Asshole of the Day.
I think that Obama is out of the loop and clueless about what the so-called Middle America wants. He wants to make himself a round peg to fit into a square hole. He sees his inability to make himself appeal to the “silent majority” as a problem with the voters. In reality, his problem is in the messenger not in the message. Not to mention the company he chooses.
The reason that he is not resonating with those “bitter” people is not because they are turning to guns and god instead of his socialist stoopidopia vision. It is because he does not connect with them where they live. He is already very familiar with G-d damned racists, terrorists and elitists.
His wife is also a great ‘Merican, not proud of her country until her hubbie gets nominated for the presidency. Must be hard to take all the best that America has to offer and call it garbage. Must be the ivy league education. Or the six figure salary.
Fact is, Obama is a radical. You can judge a person by the company he keeps, and his familiars are very indicative of the Man from Hopeville. Read more…
“Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws–always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of the trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: “Please pass this so that I won’t be able to do something I know I should stop.” Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them “for their own good”–not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”
– The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, Narrator (Manuel)
A new spring, a new violent video game, a new debate looms on whether or not we will need more legislation for said games. It seems to me that we need less moderation of content in all digital formats. We need to let parents and kids decide together what is right and appropriate. Moderating free speech “just a little bit” is akin to being “just a little bit pregnant”. Read more…
It seems that a whole lot of people have forgotten why we went to war with Iraq in 2003. For the unwashed out there, there was a long chain of events that led to our decision to go to war. Here is the original war declaration from October 10th, 2002. I won’t bother pasting the whole thing here, but will distill it down to its fundamentals.
Iraq’s failure to abide by UN ceasefire protocols from 1991.
Iraq’s failure to open its borders to WMD inspectors in accordance with repeated UN resolutions.
Iraq’s failure to abide with the no-fly zone for over a decade.
