That's No Moon... That's a Space Station!!!

Mom's playing some inane Facebook game where the objects that she is searching for bear no resemblance to the images on the screen.  Thus the post title.... Probably the last Star Wars reference of the day, many apologies in advance.

I am desperately searching for employment, meaningful or otherwise, here in the north woods of Michigan.  I am less than enthused thus far with the choices that I have found, but am soldiering on anyway for the sake of my grandmother.  Granted, she doesn't know where she is or what day it is, but she would miss me terribly if I were to suddenly disappear to go do something horrible like get a job.

There also seems to be a bout of laryngitis/strep throat/all sorts of nastiness galloping about the land.  So far, I have managed to elude the little bastard germs - they had best not get any crazy ideas.  I have vitamin C and I am NOT afraid to use it.

Respect out to Margaret and Helen, who are back in full force this year, and just in time for the GOP debacle, I mean primary rampage.  Everybody is getting so farking politically correct nowadays, they are afraid to offend the establishment.  BAH!  Go old ladies, tell it like it is!!!!

Anywho... Must figure out the rest of the evening.  With any luck, it will involve Doctor Who :-)

The Stupid, It Hurts....

Ok, so I know that I shouldn't pick on the intellectually challenged... but I loaned my copy of V for Vendetta to a guy down the street several days ago because he said he wanted a movie that had a message.  He called yesterday and asked if he could keep it awhile longer - no problem just don't call before noon, seriously.  He ran into Mom at the Post Office today.  He loved it, but has had to watch it several times because he still doesn't quite get it.  

Speaking of stupid, Jan Brewer is a hot topic at Politico.  Whimper.

Also this:  Sarah Palin: Newt Gingrich's secret weapon

Remember kids... stupid is as stupid does.

What is a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this

This will be my first post in a very very long time this will also be my first post ever dictated to my iPhone for ass will see how badly Siri fucks this up

Apparently the iPhone does not do punctuation and could potentially be problematic as I hate editing but we shall see how this goes

This won't be long as it is past midnight and I really shouldn't be making this much noise postglacial see what is to come in the days ahead

Post glacial? really Siri really?

I weep for the future of technology

Plus one...

Funny Roundup -- Sick Day 4/27/2009

Plants are human too, you know... wait....


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Kinky....


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You mean water, like from a toilet?


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I have no idea what this says, but this is funny....


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Ah... nature humor...


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Yup... cats and nature don't go together....


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Not all cats are cute....


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Yes, cats are always plotting murder. Remember that.


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Whole new meaning to sleeping with the fishes....


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No comment needed.


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Dedicated to Blind Dog... (now I've got that song in my head!!!)


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Ah... The Who....


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Tax Humor!!!


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Follow Up

Okay, so I'm lying in my bathtub pondering... like I do. And it occurs to me... what is "traditional marriage" anyway? For most of the last several hundred years, marriage involved the wife becoming the property of the husband. She had no rights in the marriage. If the husband predeceased his wife, she became the property of the eldest son. She could not inherit property. She went from being the property of one man to another until all the men were dead and she became destitute. Marriage was a method of transferring ownership of women from one man to another. It was controlled by the church, but until recent centuries the church was the state.

Today, marriage is different, in some places anyway (don't get me started on Sharia). A few decades ago, women came to the realization that they were human beings and started demanding rights. Now, they can inherit property. They are not married off at the earliest possible breeding age to the highest bidder - they can select their own breeding stock, or choose not to breed at all. They can decide to walk away from a marriage. Marriage is now more than a transfer of ownership of a woman from her father to another man - it is essentially a business partnership; an agreement between two people to become one legal entity in exchange for certain benefits from the state. These benefits include, but are not limited to: joint health care coverage, tax benefits, inheritance rights, joint ownership of assets, visitation rights, etc. And since church and state are separate entities, this contract does not need to be ratified by the church. A church may perform its own ceremony, and that ceremony does not need to be ratified by the state. The contracts are already, for all intents and purposes, two separate things.

Because we are already far removed from what the "traditional" notion of marriage has been for all of these thousands of years, it seems illogical, if not downright contradictory, to try to hold on to the only tiny shred of definition that "traditional" marriage may still hold at this stage. The only reason to do so is to withhold rights from people whose lifestyles you do not agree with. Now, you may do that in your church ceremonies, but the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution does not allow the state to do that in the framework of our laws. If a contract is offered to two consenting adults that gives them benefits, and the only reason to deny those benefits is your belief system, that is discrimination.

We have already thrown off the shackles of all of the other ridiculous notions associated with "traditional" marriage - arranged marriages, dowries, marrying off thirteen year-olds, forced submission of women, racial purity... why hang on to this last atrocity?

Good night and good luck.

Manifesto: Gay Marriage

My Manifesto

I do not subscribe to any particular doctrine, religion, political party, or other organized collection of viewpoints. I have views on a variety of subjects that I have come to believe based on my own experiences. These views are subject to change based on new experiences, research, or information. I tend to be called “progressive” or “liberal” based on many of these views, but hey… labels are just ways to pigeonhole people. I will post these views as I have time in case anyone gives a rat’s patootie.

Marriage: there are two different kinds of marriage. One is what happens in the church, and the church decides who it will marry. The Catholic church has rules about non-Catholics and divorcees, for example. No church should be required to relax those rules to accommodate people that do not conform to their beliefs. No church should be required to change their teachings to condone behavior that they believe is immoral. You can do whatever you want in your church, that’s the beauty of the separation of church and state; the state cannot govern the church.

The other is the legal contract granted by the state, and the state (which is governed by the Constitution) has an obligation to provide equal protection to all. Equal protection means that if a two-person contract granting property sharing rights can be given to a man and a woman, that two-person contract should be granted to two men or to two women. The rules currently provide for two consenting adults, and you cannot discriminate on gender or sexual preference. You also cannot discriminate based on one group’s view of morality, even if that group is the majority. That’s the other beauty of the separation of church and state; the church cannot govern the state.

From another purely constitutional perspective, once one state permitted equal marriage, a whole can of Constitutional worms was opened. We have a whole slew of federal and state issues as long as the laws vary from state to state, and marriages performed in one state are considered invalid in another. From a purely practical perspective, it is time to standardize the laws and accept the inevitable.

From a personal perspective, I have never seen a logical or reasonable argument that allowing homosexuals the right to marry would present a material risk to society. Every study that I have ever seen that argued that children were better off with one male and one female parent always included single parents in the study. The only individual cases I have ever seen where children were “harmed” in gay relationships were when one parent were carried off into an ultra-religious fervor and convinced that homosexuality was some horrible sin. I know a lot of people that were raised by one or more gay parents (including myself), and we are no more screwed up than those raised by straight people. We may be a little more tolerant in some cases, but that goes with the territory. Gay people are just as capable of long-term, committed, and loving relationships as everyone else, despite the stereotypes. They are often just as religious, once they find a community that doesn’t tell them that they’re going straight to hell, and often very moral.

Some people will say that marriage was meant to be one man and one woman. They’ll say that’s what is in the Bible, or that’s “Traditional Marriage.” I say look around the world at ALL of the traditions, not just the modern Judeo-Christian ethics of the last 3000 or so years. Our country was founded on the concepts of equality, freedom, and justice for all, even if we have never gotten around to practicing it. You may believe that your God wants your “traditional marriage” but I believe that the Jesus portrayed in the Bible would preach tolerance and love. He also knew the separation between the state and the church (remember that whole “render unto Caesar” bit?) I also believe that if God is really all-powerful, allowing people the right to enjoy the same freedom and happiness that you have is not going to hurt him in any way. Do you really, really believe it’s going to hurt you?

If so, tell me how at mutantkat@yahoo.com. Only through logical and reasonable discourse can we ever get through the hateful rhetoric on both sides and reach a consensus that will resolve this issue once and for all.