After decades of being persecuted for their nontraditional marriages, Mormons were thrilled to organize their members to support Proposition 8, a California amendment which stripped gays and lesbians of their right to wed, a right which the California Supreme Court had granted. The Church of Latter Day Saints, renounced polygamy in 1890, but they continue to worship a text which exalts it and follow a religion which breads fundamentalism. The Mormons feared that, if not stopped, equal rights would creep into other states. Spokesman Mike Otterson said "If same-gender marriage is approved in California...other states will follow suit." The Church issued a letter, which was read in every congregation, urging members to donate their "means and time" to pass Prop 8. The Yes on 8 campaign estimates that up to 40 percent of its donations come from Mormons. And so, the people who had insisted that marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman...would not stand for a marriage between two men or two women.
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John McCain
With Prop 8 Mormons Get to Tell Other People Their Marriages Are F*&^#$ Up
John Cleese on Sarah Palin : She's a well-trained parrot
Remember that the man knows a thing or two about parrots:
John Cleese's observations about the United States are right on target and I've written about them here before : That the United States has become a banana republic under the Bushes in 2000 .
Yet he goes on record saying exactly what so many of us have heard from people from elsewhere in the world : that electing Bush in 2006 was a massive fuck up. It is still incredible that people in this country somehow thought that getting Dubya back in the Oval Office was a good idea.
It's why Cleese believe that as a nation we could redeem ourselves by not voting into office either Parah Palin or John McCain.
Watch it.
"A cold calculated political decision"
That's how John McCain describes his choice of VP, Sarah Palin.
Peggy Noonan finally caught the "Stop Sarah Palin" virus
Peggy Noonan was caught back in August saying that Sarah Palin was a cynical choice for a running mate. Not only did she say off-the-record but while the audiotape was still rolling that Palin was not fit to lead, she also said the Republicans just blew it. Watch it :
Well, she's putting her nail on that McCain-Palin campaign coffin and it's worth a read from top to bottom. I am particularly impressed by her saying what I've been thinking for months about Palin : She is an ambitious woman, that's for sure, but only for her own sake.
We know nothing about her core values, about what exactly she stands for and how she is supposed to improve the lives of others by becoming VP or even President. She has no ideology, only raw ambition. It's what makes her a dangerous error. An error Noonan describes as just saying things.
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Where has this John McCain been hiding?
Where have they've been keeping this John McCain?
McCain on Letterman :
"I screwed up, what can I say? What can I say!"
"I haven't had this much fun since my last interrogation."
Best. Line. Ever.
And here's McCain at last night's Al Smith's Dinner. It's like a the Friar's Club Roast but with a bunch of politicians and Catholic'istas and so, allegedly without the profanity.
Part One : Where he announces firing all his staff and replacing them with "Joe The Plumber"
John McCain's eyes don't lie
Via The Jed Report.
There's been a lot of buzz about John McCain's body language throughout last night's debate. That his contempt for Obama was palpable in his incessant blinking and weird smiling.
You be the judge.
All I have to say is that for all his oratorial skills and what now, Obama hems and haws A LOT!
