April 22, 2008
NICE
Lileks is a gem:
You know, it may be hard to find a candidate who doesnÂ’t belong to a church whose leader delivers eyebrow-singing speeches on the evils of America and also built a house Jim Bakker would approve, and it may be hard to find a candidate who doesnÂ’t move with ease in the same social circles as some people who bombed the Pentagon, but it canÂ’t be that hard to find one who doesnÂ’t do both.
Speaking of gems, my husband's ego grew about two sizes after the previous post. Now he's walking around the house talking about how great he is.
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April 21, 2008
SICK
So apparently that miscarriage art, it was a
hoax. I don't know what is sicker: really inducing your own miscarriage for art, or just pretending you did to get attention.
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April 17, 2008
IN STRANGE COMPANY
Ha, Mare thought to do a little googling, and she found that we don't know the only
Hitler cat. There's a whole website of 'em:
Cats That Look Like Hitler. I'm gonna get permission to add our kitteh to the bunch.
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Actually my roomate told me about it. She told me Tabby cats, like your inlaws, always have a little black patch on their lip if they are female. I just thought Kitler was hilarious.
Posted by: Mare at April 17, 2008 04:43 AM (EI19G)
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I never noticed a black lip on my female tabbies... then again, they were black and grey tabbies...
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April 16, 2008
AWWWW
Found this story on ABW's site:
Baby left at doorstep finds new home
BAGHDAD – Spotting irregularities is a tactic that is drilled into the minds of Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers throughout training and in practice while in Iraq. Soldiers recently watched as a car pulled up to an entry control point at Forward Operating Base Callahan in northern Baghdad. They continued to watch as a woman stepped out of the car holding a bag. Once the woman dropped the bag near the gate, internal alarms were ringing and a careful search was called for and conducted.
That search yielded a newborn baby wrapped tightly in several cloths. Soldiers raced to the bag, retrieved the child and brought him to the aid station to be examined. “We unwrapped it to make sure he was alive – and he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t dead, he wasn’t injured,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Briscoe, the Aid Station NCOIC at FOB Callahan. “He was a perfectly healthy baby. I’m guessing three to seven days old. He was in perfect health. There wasn’t a scratch on him.”
And what's to happen to the little bouncing boy? That's the best part of the story:
The baby is to be adopted by the brother of a local national, who works at the base. The brother and his wife have been married five years and have been unable to have a baby of their own. The interpreters at FOB Callahan have taken a collection to donate to the family to help care for the baby.
A happy ending for everyone. Plus I like thinking about manly soldiers in Iraq changing diapers and cooing over a newborn.
Heh, that reminds me of the time we went to visit some friends who had just had a new baby girl. While we were there, our friend was telling my husband about the new pistol he'd bought. He brought it out to show my husband, and oh how I wish I had a picture of my husband holding a newborn baby girl under one arm and aiming a Glock with the other.
Now that's hot.
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I'm sure I'll have an opportunity to see that soon... my husband with a baby and a gun. What a picture!
Posted by: Green at April 16, 2008 11:03 AM (6Co0L)
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I have to say that is something I would like to see as well! hmmmmmm............
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April 15, 2008
WOAH
This is just...well, awful. It's one of those stories that on the surface sounds funny if it weren't so damned serious and sad.
'World peace' hitcher is murdered: An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The artist's sister says it all:
"Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust."
Indeed.
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Trust and respect are earned, not just given. So people think that by giving people these things, they will appreciate them...
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April 04, 2008
TOWNHALL
A good Townhall article today:
Do We Care What They Think of America?
I wonder whether Democrats ever indulge the suspicion that "world opinion" may be bunk? Let's contrast, for example, the popularity of Israel (19 percent positive, 52 percent negative) and North Korea (23 percent positive, 44 percent negative).
You can imagine the juxtaposition she sets up between Israel and North Korea. Why do we care if Europeans don't like us; if they nestle us in betwee China and North Korea, they're the ones with problems, not us.
Also, Lorie Byrd wrote an article called I'd Pay to See Movies About American Heroes and opened her piece with quotes from lil ol' me. Aw, shucks.
(Both articles found via Conservative Grapevine, one-stop shopping for good links.)
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April 03, 2008
YEESH
Oh my heavens, now MEN are getting
pregnant before I am.
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This story honestly makes me wish I would have grown up during my grandmother's generation...although, at 92, my grandmother is still alive. Good grief...the wierdness (and that's the best word I can come up with) of this world is out of control.
Posted by: Nicole at April 03, 2008 09:39 PM (YHVU/)
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Apparently I can't spell...*weirdness* (if it's actually a word)
Posted by: Nicole at April 03, 2008 09:44 PM (YHVU/)
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Everything I've heard on this story is doublespeak.
The pregnant person has, and was born with, all the female equipment needed to get pregnant. This person is NOT a male, just wanted to be. But the PC world keeps referring to her as a man. I find it very disgusting that they are even playing it up.
Posted by: Ruth H at April 04, 2008 03:54 AM (wWMQq)
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IÂ’m with Ruth H. This freak isnÂ’t a man.
Let me get this straight, she wants to be a man but was born a woman so she is in the process of changing her sex. But sheÂ’s so convinced she should be a man that she felt the need to give birth to a child. Yes, how manly of her.
I feel for the child. How screwed up with that kid be?
Posted by: tim at April 04, 2008 04:14 AM (nno0f)
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Ugh, this made me so mad. I try to be open minded about things, but either you are male or female. I don't see how you can feel that you should have been born male, take all these steps to become one, and yet say "leave the uterus! I might need it one day!" Basically what this is, is a pregnant woman in man-drag. So why is that news?
Posted by: Ann M. at April 04, 2008 08:25 AM (HFUBt)
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It's a very confused individual.
Posted by: Green at April 04, 2008 08:49 AM (6Co0L)
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Wow... I'm a little flabbergasted by some of the comments, but I recognize every one's feelings are valid.
However some education might be in order, for those that are curious/interested.
My opinion first: I think anyone who truly wants children and can have children and do go ahead and have children, well there's worse scenarios I can think of. Anytime a child is wanted, that's a positive thing in my view. Regardless of whether the person identifies as male or female.
Some background info...
Gender ambiguity occurs in 1 out of 20,000 babies.
I recommend reading Middlesex to better understand transgender/ambiguous gender or AIS experience.
Many people are born with certain combinations/levels of X and Y chromosomes that determines whether they clearly have a penis or a vagina.
Some people are born with different levels so their sex is ambiguous(not clear) which can result in having the genitals of one sex but they have the emotions and hormones of another sex - which tends to show up in puberty. Some have characteristics of both males and females.
Doctors often assign a sex early when gender is ambiguous or a baby has characteristics of both genders. But when this happens, sometimes the assigned sex isn't the one the baby later identifies with. This is why you sometimes see the phrase "trapped in a man's body or a woman's body etc"... they are literally stuck with the gender assignment that was given at birth. This isn't liberal-speak, it's medically, scientifically a reality for many people. These people are not freaks or "confused" either, they're human beings. They don't deserve better than pity or scorn.
Another good source of information: http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/intersexuality_faq.htm
Posted by: Crys at April 04, 2008 12:24 PM (dqGUK)
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::flushes red::
I mean... "they deserve better than pity or scorn."
Major typo on my part, my apologies.
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