Current Events
Feb. 24th, 2004 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojSuddenly realized I haven't updated in a while - too much going on. Getting ready for my surgery Thursday, reading like a madwoman (I'm finally 1 week ahead in everything - yay!) and spending family time together. Tonight it was skating on the Canal at night. Don't know how far we skated, but it was farther than we'd ever gone before. I can't feel my bum.
Also keeping up with current events like the San Francisco Gay Marriage Extravaganza. And there's been some surprising stuff coming out (heh - no pun intended) over that. No, I don't mean Bush saying he'll back a constitutional amendment making marriage het - that's about as surprising as the sun deciding to rise. But remember "Politically Incorrect" Bill Maher? I never really got him. Friends of mine told me he was "brilliant, incisive, witty, irreverent" - I dunno, every time I tuned in he just seemed to be an immature simplistic boob. It wasn't (just) that I disagreed with most of his politics - I was repelled even when he espoused views similar to mine.
So imagine my amusement at finding this:
And finally, New Rule, Special Valentine's Day Edition: You can't claim you're the party of smaller government and then make laws about love. On this occasion of this Valentine's Day, let's stop and ask ourselves what business is it of the state how consenting adults choose to pair off, share expenses and eventually stop having sex with each other. [laughter] [applause] And why does the Bush Administration want a Constitutional amendment about weddings? Hey, why stop at weddings? Birthdays are important; let's put them in the great document. Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake. [laughter] [applause] You know, to send the right message to kids. [laughter]
Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, Social Security. Hey, how about we privatize privacy? [applause] [cheers] Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can't all marry Liza Minnelli. [laughter] [applause]
You know, Republicans used to be the party that opposed social engineering. But now they push programs to outlaw marriage for some people and encourage it for others. If you're straight, there's a billion-five in the budget to promote marriage, but gay marriage is opposed because it threatens or mocks or does something to the 'sanctity' of marriage, as if anything you can do in Vegas, drunk off your ass in front of an Elvis impersonator, could be considered sacred. [laughter] [applause]
Half the people who pledge eternal love are doing it because one of them is either knocked up, rich or desperate. [laughter] [applause] But in George Bush's mind, marriage is only a beautiful lifetime bond of love and sharing. Kind of like what his dad has with the Saudis. [laughter] [applause] [cheers] Please, I kid.
All right, but at least the right wing aren't hypocrites on this issue. They really believe that homosexuality is an abomination and a dysfunction that's curable. They believe that if a gay man just devotes his life to Jesus, he'll stop being gay, because that theory worked out so well with the Catholic priests. [laughter] [applause]
But I have to tell you, the greater shame in this story goes to the Democrats, because they don't believe homosexuality is an abomination. And therefore, their refusal to endorse gay marriage is hypocrisy. [applause] Their position doesn't come from the Bible. It's ripped right from the latest poll, which says most Americans are against gay marriage.
Well, you know what? Sometimes most Americans are just wrong. [applause] And where is the Democrat who will stand up and go beyond the half measures of 'civil union' and 'hate the sin, love the sinner' and say loud and clear, 'There is no sin; it's not an abomination and no one can control how cupid aims his arrows. And the ones who pretend they can usually turn out to be the biggest freaks.' [laughter] [applause] [cheers]
The law in this country should reflect that some people are just born 100% outrageously, fabulously, undeniably, Fire Island gay! [applause] [cheers] And they do not need reprogramming. They need a man with a slow hand! [applause] [cheers]
Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. That's our show. Thanks to Billy Baldwin, Deborah Simmons, Jason Alexander, Colonel Bill Burkett, James Moore and Rep. Heather Wilson. Thank you, folks! [applause] [cheers]
for full transcript, see
http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/print/t_hbo_realtime_021304.htm
Here's another site I really liked: Lesbian Alliance article on the marriages.
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Also keeping up with current events like the San Francisco Gay Marriage Extravaganza. And there's been some surprising stuff coming out (heh - no pun intended) over that. No, I don't mean Bush saying he'll back a constitutional amendment making marriage het - that's about as surprising as the sun deciding to rise. But remember "Politically Incorrect" Bill Maher? I never really got him. Friends of mine told me he was "brilliant, incisive, witty, irreverent" - I dunno, every time I tuned in he just seemed to be an immature simplistic boob. It wasn't (just) that I disagreed with most of his politics - I was repelled even when he espoused views similar to mine.
So imagine my amusement at finding this:
And finally, New Rule, Special Valentine's Day Edition: You can't claim you're the party of smaller government and then make laws about love. On this occasion of this Valentine's Day, let's stop and ask ourselves what business is it of the state how consenting adults choose to pair off, share expenses and eventually stop having sex with each other. [laughter] [applause] And why does the Bush Administration want a Constitutional amendment about weddings? Hey, why stop at weddings? Birthdays are important; let's put them in the great document. Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake. [laughter] [applause] You know, to send the right message to kids. [laughter]
Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, Social Security. Hey, how about we privatize privacy? [applause] [cheers] Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can't all marry Liza Minnelli. [laughter] [applause]
You know, Republicans used to be the party that opposed social engineering. But now they push programs to outlaw marriage for some people and encourage it for others. If you're straight, there's a billion-five in the budget to promote marriage, but gay marriage is opposed because it threatens or mocks or does something to the 'sanctity' of marriage, as if anything you can do in Vegas, drunk off your ass in front of an Elvis impersonator, could be considered sacred. [laughter] [applause]
Half the people who pledge eternal love are doing it because one of them is either knocked up, rich or desperate. [laughter] [applause] But in George Bush's mind, marriage is only a beautiful lifetime bond of love and sharing. Kind of like what his dad has with the Saudis. [laughter] [applause] [cheers] Please, I kid.
All right, but at least the right wing aren't hypocrites on this issue. They really believe that homosexuality is an abomination and a dysfunction that's curable. They believe that if a gay man just devotes his life to Jesus, he'll stop being gay, because that theory worked out so well with the Catholic priests. [laughter] [applause]
But I have to tell you, the greater shame in this story goes to the Democrats, because they don't believe homosexuality is an abomination. And therefore, their refusal to endorse gay marriage is hypocrisy. [applause] Their position doesn't come from the Bible. It's ripped right from the latest poll, which says most Americans are against gay marriage.
Well, you know what? Sometimes most Americans are just wrong. [applause] And where is the Democrat who will stand up and go beyond the half measures of 'civil union' and 'hate the sin, love the sinner' and say loud and clear, 'There is no sin; it's not an abomination and no one can control how cupid aims his arrows. And the ones who pretend they can usually turn out to be the biggest freaks.' [laughter] [applause] [cheers]
The law in this country should reflect that some people are just born 100% outrageously, fabulously, undeniably, Fire Island gay! [applause] [cheers] And they do not need reprogramming. They need a man with a slow hand! [applause] [cheers]
Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. That's our show. Thanks to Billy Baldwin, Deborah Simmons, Jason Alexander, Colonel Bill Burkett, James Moore and Rep. Heather Wilson. Thank you, folks! [applause] [cheers]
for full transcript, see
http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/print/t_hbo_realtime_021304.htm
Here's another site I really liked: Lesbian Alliance article on the marriages.
This puzzles me:
You are Pig Pen!
Which Peanuts Character are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
And finally,
- pack - see pamphlets
- get rid of e-mails
- Daniel's pizza lunch
- Mami
- Legislation class
- send e-mails to Kurt and Neil
- laundry
Forlornly hoping to some day get to this...
- Christine's checklist
- answer Sarah's e-mail, Kyl, Medee,
Becky, Maricat - scan pix
- home page - work on photo pages
- call Bourke's
- PSE
- Contracts: Mistake in Assumptions
Rob Engineering & Construction v. OntarioMJB Enterprises v. Defence Construction
Mossman, pp.317-338Mossman pp.338-345Volume 3, pp. 68-71Rathwell v RathwellPettkus v. BeckerSorochan v Sorochan- Peter v. Beblow
- Soulos v. Korkontzilas
- Mossman, pp.
481-482; 526-530 - Volume 3, pp. 120-end of Volume 3
- USC guidelines
- JM Keyes article
