theweaselking | Jul. 20th, 2006

Jul. 20th, 2006

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The 7 deadly sins.... OF GUMMI BEARS

WingNutDaily explains why the current war between Israel and Lebanon started: It's all the fault of THOSE DAMN DIRTY FAGS.

Boy, there's nothing quite like a modern fantasy with Twue Fated Wuv, Americans arguing over who is more Irish and the surprising revelation that while Wicca is true, Xtianity isn't. At least, I wish there weren't.

The older I get, the more I think embracing Romantic Celtism is not taking pride in a glorious tradition but rather a disability that should be listed in DSM-IV-TR.

I love

james_nicoll in all the ways it's legally allowed, and some where it's important to note that an indictment is still not a conviction.

Also,
Cassini finds that Xanadu on Titan is a continent with earth-like terrain features.

brian_berlin brings us "A few suggestions on what to do when you get lonely for the sea", courtesy of a former Navy sort.

Samples:

1. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your spouse whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack".

13. Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together.

16. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.

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Dear god I love T-Rex.

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When superheroes buy out the villains!

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On the idiot-king vetoing a bill allowing medical research, I will let slacktivist have the floor for a minute:

Several polls have shown a clear majority of Americans support the research, which would use embryos that already exist in fertility clinics and would otherwise be thrown out. ...

Bush announced his veto before a White House audience including some families of children born from adopted embryos, called "snowflake babies" by opponents of the stem-cell research.
This is what [Bush] means by a "moral boundary." He believes that these embryos must never be used for research, because morality demands that they be tossed in the trash with yesterday's coffee grounds.

The photo-op with the "snowflake babies" is meaningless. Bush wasn't signing a law mandating that the soon-to-be-discarded embryos from fertility clinics be put up for adoption. By blocking this legislation he was ensuring that these embryos be thrown away, scrapped, destroyed. And he did so claiming that this was a sign of respect for what he claims to believe are fully human persons.

He does not -- cannot -- really believe any such thing.

To really believe this, and to casually continue to permit these embryos to be destroyed, would be monstrous. If Bush really thought the "snowflake babies" sideshow were anything more than duplicitous hot air, he would be a moral monster for not immediately acting on that belief and sending in the national guard to save the lives of the thousands of American citizens now languishing in freezers in fertility clinics across the country.

And from his comments, I bring you "Snowflake Babies: because calling them 'Operation Save Aryan Embryos So We Don't Have to Adopt a Black or Biracial Child' wouldn't fit on a business card."