I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

RR, exactly what I expected from that A-h*^e.

What Retired Libby said....as well as Wendy Davis.  Issa....so much of what I dislike and distrust about the GOP.  GOP crooks are so bad. 

Jackie

Good for Ellen (she's Canayjun, y'know)

Kam170,

When you mentioned the great women politians of Texas you forgot my favorite, Barbara Jordon.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jordan 

Kam, I so loved and so miss the "Gentle Lady from Texas." What a force of nature!

Here's a good test for your respective news services - did any of you hear anything about something happening in the Australian Government today?

Hi Suzie.  We did heard the news over here:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/26/world/asia/australia-leadership-vote/index.html

I did, Suzie - although we saw it on the BBC news, which we watch every day. Al Jazeera, too (heads exploding in 3...2...1...).



"Marriage" actually developed as a contract - a business arrangement to safeguard and transfer wealth and property. The state (not a religious organization!) governs marriage, issues licenses and regulates it. If someone's marriage is threatened by someone else's marriage, then they have bigger problems than can be addressed by marriage.



L

The classic putdown:

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

“No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted,” Ms. Bachmann said in a statement. “For thousands of years of recorded human history, no society has defended the legal standard of marriage as anything other than between man and woman.” She said the court action “will undermine the best interest of children and the best interests of the United States.” 

Asked to react to Bachmann’s statement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi summed up what increasing majorities of Americans feel about such strident opposition with a dismissive “Who cares?”

Yay for Pelosi.

Love the Repug recreation of history. Let's get it right.  For thousands of years, marriage was a contract between a man and the fathers of however many women that man chose to marry.  The women had no say in who they married or how many wives the husbands had.

And, for those followers of the Bible, how many of the Patriachs had more than one wife at the same time?  Quite a number.

On Jesus weeping - I think he'd be weeping over the 30,000 people dead from gunshots every year, over the children and families who are hungry while politicians try to take away what little food they have,  over the people who can't make a living wage while those at the top pile up more and more cash, over the people dying of diseases that could be cured if they had had health care, over dying forests and flooding cities.   My question is why aren't more people who call themselves Christian also weeping over these things instead of focusing their anger and hate on people who wish to join in a legal, loving relationship?

Sandy, you have expressed better than I what I wanted to say. Thank you.

I'm glad you did hear the news from here.

Gillard stabbed Rudd in the back 3 years ago and now he has beaten her to become party leader again. She is an evil communist witch and he is an egotistic nutcase so neither of them is any good. He only got to be Prime Minister in Parliament for one day as the session has ended. There will be an election in September or maybe sooner. They wanted him back as leader because they were facing a wipeout under her. I find it hard to believe how the individual members only care about getting re elected and not about their communities. The really interesting thing was that she called the leadership ballot, saying the loser should quit politics, thinking she would win and she would finally get rid of him - that one sure blew up in her face. I hope his return doesn't help them win the next election or Susie will be packing up and moving to New Zealand.

Hmmm, maybe this cartoon depicting the tea partying, extreme right wingers' hero will make sense to some.....