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Sunday, October 19, 2008 04:43 PM
Original article: I Like to Watch

Maybe I'm just tired and cranky, BUT...

...I wish Salon wouldn't be so provincial when it comes to homosexuality. Ms. Havrilesky, who's a fine writer, succumbs to the let's-find-a-way-to-insert-gay-into-the-headline shortcut for writing something that panders to our national homo-obsession. So, Ms. Havrilesky, is "Little Women" a gay escapist fantasy? How about the Sopranos, with all those nearly naked women writhing out front and the boys in the back preferring each other's company?

And then there's the unchallenged, "...he who disagrees with me sucks cock by choice...," written by Sanders. Well, I suck cock. I imagine Ms. Havrilesky does too. So, Sanders disparages most women and all gay men for the sake of...what? Sanders, is your cock so repulsive that you use it to debase people? Or are all men so repugnant that making love to one is akin to swallowing slugs? There is misogyny in such a statement and homophobia, but also self-loathing. And what guy doesn't love to fondle cock, although, for most of them, it's their own. Still, cock is cock and men do love to touch it and the nearly unanimous number of men who love to stroke cock is the ultimate gay escapist reality.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 06:29 PM

Did you guys read about the slain (shot in the head) black bear cub...

...left on the campus with the Obama sign attached to it? Yet another McCain/Palin domestic terrorist and racist.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 06:33 PM

I just got this email:

Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?....think about it.

Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit?

Ponder the following:

What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident?

What if Obama had had a long affair while he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama had problems with a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution?

You could easily add to this list.

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama: Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations. Harvard - Juris Doctor(J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden: University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science. Syracuse University College of Law -Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin: Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study University of Idaho - 2 semesters -journalism Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Education isn't everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. And which of these candidates has the intellect, education, and self-discipline to lead?

You make the call.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 06:50 PM

Most Americans don't believe in God, whatever they assert.

You see their unbelief when they scurry to the hospital, rather than pass to Jesus's lap.

You see their unbelief when they vote for war following 9-11, rather than turn the other cheek.

You see their unbelief when they hoard, rather than give all to the poor and trust in God, as the Bible commands.

You see their unbelief as they vote for a torturing president and do so in Jesus's name, who was tortured.

The difference between Scandanavians and Americans is that Scandanavians are honest about their unbelief.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 07:28 PM

@ The Beagle of Doom

What do you think is at play?

Friday, October 24, 2008 07:45 AM

Professor Dyson is one my heroes.

When he talks, I listen.

Friday, October 24, 2008 11:41 AM

That McCain and Palin were so easily duped says something about them.

Give them the tiller arm of the American military and they'll be duped into even more wars.

Friday, October 24, 2008 12:31 PM

The coverage is germane.

It highlights her hypocrisy. We're all hypocrites, but hers is the party that masturbated over Edwards' haircut and that fixated on Bill Clinton's crotch. It's also the party that sells itself as connected to Main Street America.

Friday, October 24, 2008 01:57 PM
Original article: Your daily (Michelle) Obama

I love that family.

They're everything Republicans pretend to be.

Now, I just wish they'd interview John McCain and all the women he's slept with, with wives on each side! And Cindy McCain, one of those wives, could could be sandwiched by the half-sister she denies!

Friday, October 24, 2008 04:30 PM

@ allie

Then Palin must apply the death penalty to all women who've used the pill and all men who've used a condom.

Palin doesn't give a whit about questions. She just want to say, "Ayers," again and again. Ayers was a terrorist, but so is Palin, if being a terrorist is dispensing terror. So is Bush. So is McCain. So is every fundy who forwarded the email about Obama being the anti-Christ. They're all terrorists.

Friday, October 24, 2008 04:33 PM

Palin took six years and four schools to graduate and...

...it shows.

Now will she promise to increase spending on twins studies to get the parents of twins votes?

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