Christina's Thoughts

Woah ... this is unexpected. Dick Cheney may come out in support of same-sex marriage.

Dick Cheney.

Most likely due to his daughter, of course. I doubt he'd be in support of it if his daughter preferred her father's namesakes. Still, quite surprising, if true. Just speculation at the moment. Although, back in '04 he did say "Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue that our family is very familiar with. . . . With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People . . . ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to." in discussin the then-proposed Federal Marriage Amendment.

Seen on ysabetwordsmith's LJ

The Real Boston Tea Party Was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770's

Current Mood: thoughtful

It's sad that this is news ...

( Waterboarding' is torture: Obama's Justice pick )

A prophetic article by the Onion, on January 17, 2000

( Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over' )

This is absurd. People are already producing "Impeach Obama" shirts and hats and bumper stickers and the like! He hasn't even been innaugurated!

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!!

Current Mood: excited

LOL! Check out this grassroots campaign!

Current Mood: amused

Heh, an amusing online poll: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/your-official-l.html

A mock-Presidential election. At the time I write this, the top ten candidates are:
1. PZ Myers with 35% of the vote (189 votes)
2. Barack Obama with 14% (77)
3. Stephen Colbert with 9% (51)
4. Immanuel Kant with 8% (41)
5. "A Philosopher Named Cohen (G.A., Joshua, or Stewart)" with 5% (29)
6. Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate with 5% (28)
6 (tie). "Any Four-Dimensionalist" with 5% (28)
8. A moose with 5% (27)
9. Saul Kripke, Schock Prize Winne with 3% (15)
10. John McCain with 2% (10)
10 (tie). Jason Stanley with 2% (10)

I just cast my ballot (for all the good it does with our idiotic Electoral College system ...). The polling place, as it turns out, is just down the street from me, just a quick walk, like, 3 minutes. :-)

Wow, this lady's insane



Seriously, whatever your political views, leave the kids out of it!

*Laughs* This is awesome

Holy crap! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_el_pr/skinhead_plot

( ATF Disrupts Skinhead Plot to Assassinate Obama )

I really do worry about Obama's chances of making it through a Presidential term. :-(

From hazumuchan

As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.

Hmm ... there's a number of good cases I can think of.

I'll go with a less well-known one. Ex Parte Merryman. It's not technically a Supreme Court ruling, although the Chief Justice at the time, Taney, did rule on it. Supreme Court justices at the time sat as circuit judges when the Supreme Court wasn't in session.

In this case, Taney ruled that Lincoln's secret suspension of habeas corpus within the boundaries of Maryland (and the arrest, by federal troops, of several pro-Confederate state legislators) was unconstitutional. Taney wrote in his ruling that:

These great and fundamental laws, which congress itself could not suspend, have been disregarded and suspended, like the writ of habeas corpus, by a military order, supported by force of arms. Such is the case now before me, and I can only say that if the authority which the constitution has confided to the judiciary department and judicial officers, may thus, upon any pretext or under any circumstances, be usurped by the military power, at its discretion, the people of the United States are no longer living under a government of laws, but every citizen holds life, liberty and property at the will and pleasure of the army officer in whose military district he may happen to be found.

This is good too: http://graphjam.com/2008/04/23/song-chart-memes-threats-to-hilary-clinton/

I especially like the macro underneath the graph. :)

Heh, this strip amuses me, from http://hijinksensue.com/2008/03/17/intelligent-political-discourse/

Heh, too true ...



And another amusing image, from http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/254-ludacris-rap-map-of-us-area-codes/

( Map of area codes in which Ludicris claims to have hoes )

Current Mood: amused

Please, God, Buddha, whoever, tell me this is a Modest Proposal-style satire. I fear it isn't as it was quickly removed from the original website, but can still be found in Google cache. If it were satire, they'd have no reason to remove it, but if these people genuinely believe this stuff, it makes good sense that they'd want to remove it from the public eye.

( An apalling article arguing that Bush needs to DEFEAT DEMOCRACY and become President-for-life )

Words utterly fail me.

Pearls Before Swine had an amusing Election Day-related storyline with Rat running for mayor.

( comic strips below )

Yesterday's Non Sequiter:



Today's Non Sequiter:



Apropos to our conversation the other day, gjohnsonkoehn :-)

Seen on dreamsindigital's journal: http://www.dykeumentary.com/pmcards/dyke_cards.htm a parody of Hallmark's "Precious Moments" cards for LGBT folks

http://www.asahi.com/english/opinion/TKY200411090144.html An editorial from Japan about the US Presidential election. I especially like (in reference to the 2000 election, and the possibility of a repeat in '04) -

If the legitimacy of the election results is questioned once again, it will damage U.S. prestige further.

Concerning elections, Soviet leader Josef Stalin once said: ``Those who cast votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.''

That may have been true under single-party dictatorship. But who would have thought the United States would be reduced to the same level.

Stalin may be laughing at America from his grave.