Melvin Udall ([info]melvin_udall) wrote,
@ 2008-05-11 16:05:00
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Current Events
“Breaking news video:” Journalists ogle Obama
"The clip of female journalists on a plane moaning as they watch Barack Obama talking on a cell phone was actually filed under “breaking news video” on the CNN [snip] They giggle and sigh “You’re killing us” as he straddles across a row of seats and they furiously click away on their cameras."
Should these people still have jobs?
I have a theory. The best service Obama could provide for America would be for him to walk the country putting his penis in all his fans. Maybe they'd get that desperate desire out of them, and start to THINK. Maybe if he breaks out some kneepads Chris Matthews can end the thrill up his leg and do his job, as should all these proud empowered professional women.


I'm feeling verbose today, so this got big. All the rest of the links are behind the cut.

*9 year old decides he wants to be a girl. School system adapts.
*The death of the grown-up, part 99,877
*Celebrity calls for banning out of season fruits and vegetables due to pollution (and my *thoughts on the real thing to ban)
*Environmental Doomsayers Have Been Wrong Many Times Before
*Third-largest newspaper company in the US Praises Terrorist's 'Charity Work'
*Obamamania:
-He claims he's visitied 57 states
-He's either a liar or doesn't know history (actually it's both)
-A simple breakdown of the comparison made between Republicans and religious leaders, versus Obama's Reverend Wright connection
- More proof that Obama knew his church was racist









9 year old decides he wants to be a girl. School system adapts.
"The Haverford School District consulted experts on transgender children, then sent letters to parents advising them that the guidance counselor would meet with the school's 100 third-grade students to explain why their classmate would now wear girls' clothes and be called by a girl's name."
This is a good use of time and resources. Someone should sue his parents, or have him removed from their custody for abuse.

"Paul McHugh, a psychiatrist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who studied sexual reassignment surgery in the 1970s, said a school's decision to support a student's transition could have long-term psychological consequences.
'They do not have a right to stop the child, but it's different when they gather everyone around and say, 'Johnnie is Jeanie,'' he said. Society, he added, should not support the decision of an immature person."
Ya think?

The mom: "but my choices were, do this and have a happy, alive girl or have an unhappy, dead boy."
Let's check back with you in ten years, hon. You know what your little unique snowflake is going to be for the rest of his coddled life, if he is extremely lucky? A screwed up activist who sees the entire world through the twisted prism of his perceived oppression, and the obsession on his differences with normal people. That's if you get lucky.



Speaking of that kind of thinking... our country is DOOMED.
The death of the grown-up, part 99,877
"what’s a cuddle party? “This is a way of framing touch in a positive way,” says cuddle party facilitator Edie Weinstein-Moser."
Adults. Gathering for sleepovers. With friends and strangers. "There’s snuggling, nuzzling and even spooning." All to "help people achieve better intimacy, and communication. And it allows people to express themselves in a comfortable and safe environment."
Let's be clear, though, "pajamas stay on the whole time. This is a non-sexual event."

Dear ALL MEN:
If you attend a "cuddle party," ever, and wonder if you are one of the vaginified, feminized, weakened, ushers of the end of this great Republic of whom I so often speak, wonder no more. Yes. Yes you are. If your effeminate ass owns one, get a hammer. Place your testicles on the table before you. Put the hammer to use. It's for the good of the future.



Chef Gordon Ramsay Calls for Gastronomic Totalitarianism
Another enviroclown: Out of season fruits should be banned because of the transportation pollution.
I've got a better idea, Libs. Let's cut to the chase on this statist hysteria and tackle a REAL problem.

Do you know what England and America import all year round that absolutely NO ONE needs?

Tea and coffee. Let's stop this bullshit slow creep as the indoctrination machine cranks along and instead head right to the top. Ban them. Right now. No more double calf grande lattes with honey on top unless the coffee beans were grown in America. How's that?

What? Not so good a plan anymore?


Environmental Doomsayers Have Been Wrong Many Times Before
The first Earth Day:
"The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death"
"The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."
In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore's hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s … hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."
Check the link for more doomsday theories. Yet here we are.
Meanwhile, weather forecasters can't predict what the weather will be like in three days, and the enviro nuts JUST discovered it's miraculously going to be COOLING for the next half decade, despite global WARMING.



THE MEDIA: The McClatchy Company is the third-largest newspaper company in the United States.
McClatchy Praises Terrorist's 'Charity Work'

Remember in Godfather II when Vito helps that old lady keep her home? That was nice. I hear Capone used to be pretty generous with his people. Organized crime is pretty cool after all, I guess.

See, the key here is everything is okay if you're anti-West, anti-America. All the goods are great, all the bads are to be ignored.

But there is no liberal media.




OBAMANANIA:

Obama Claims He's Visited 57 States

Do I think he thinks there are more than 50 states? No. Do I think he meant 47 of the continental united states? Yes.

Do I know the press, and especially the ultra partisan nutjobs of DailyKos and HuffingtonPost would go ape shit if McCain did this? Also yes. The (NOT LIBERAL!) media would have a field day. But not for Hopebama. He can do no wrong.



Oh, but the fun doesn't end there.
Obama Needs a History Lesson
During his North Carolina Primary victory speech Tuesday night: "Sen. Obama said: "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."

The press said nothing.

The only problem appears to be the claim is a wild distortion at best, except for Kennedy.

Kennedy, the only one the claim truly applies to, did incredible damage by having the meeting, CAUSING the Cuba Missile Crisis. His meeting helped convince the leader of the Soviet Union that he was weak, encouraging a stand off with America, as will Obama's meetings with leaders in the future.

Dear Liberals:
That he is shiny, pretty and a minority does not qualify him for President! He is not whatever-niche-group-you-identify-with. His election will not "heal America" or make your oppressed minority wounds go away.

"The lack of historical knowledge among journalists is merely appalling. But in a presidential candidate it's dangerous."



And finally, I think I stole this from [info]badlydrawnjeff. Apologies if credit is due.
PASTORS AND POLITICS
A simple excellent breakdown refuting the erroneous comparison made by partisan extremists of Hagee and Wright.

"Beyond all this, McCain didn't have his children baptized by Hagee. Or donate thousands of dollars to Hagee's church. Or name Hagee to a prominent position in his campaign. In sum, McCain did none of the things that would make for an apples-to-apples comparison to the Obama-Wright connection."

Period. Anyone claiming otherwise is, simply and clearly, dishonest.



Obama didn't know his church was controversial, or Reverend Wright felt the way he did?
April 15, 2007 Church Bulletin:
"the major networks are run by right-winged conservatives who still see black people as subhuman and portray black people as such."

Sickening. That his denials continue to be swallowed is amazing. It says so much about his fans.



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[info]prader
2008-05-11 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Dear ALL MEN:
If you attend a "cuddle party," ever, and wonder if you are one of the vaginified, feminized, weakened, ushers of the end of this great Republic of whom I so often speak, wonder no more. Yes. Yes you are. If your effeminate ass owns one, get a hammer. Place your testicles on the table before you. Put the hammer to use. It's for the good of the future.


HAHAHAHAHA!!

What if I'm a guy who attends one of these things with only other women and manage to turn it into a sexual event?

Cause I mean, really, otherwise what's the point?

Could I be considered a man then? Or is that 'harassment?'


Great post. Loved the Cartoon.

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[info]prader
2008-05-11 10:24 pm UTC (link)
And wait a minute, am I having a huge brain fart or aren't there forty eight states in the Continental U.S.?

48 plus Hawaii plus Alaska=50. No?

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-11 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Yes. If you watch the video he says something like "I've been to 47, with 1 to go, and my people didn't let me go to Hawaii and Alaska."

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-11 10:30 pm UTC (link)
Oh, don't get me wrong. Half the reason I was a Liberal was all the opportunities. :)


If they go to network future engagements, I think they know I'm with them in spirit. But let's face it, I'd be willing to bet any guy who attends such a thing has a wife or partner who took a break from adding to his ever expanding "honey do" list to make him go.

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[info]prader
2008-05-12 12:21 am UTC (link)
That's offensive.

Look! I almost managed to type that with a straight face!

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[info]heirtoruin
2008-05-11 11:31 pm UTC (link)
McCain would be labeled senile if he visited 57 states.

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-11 11:35 pm UTC (link)
Exactly.




BTW, check you LJ mailbox.

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[info]heirtoruin
2008-05-12 01:54 am UTC (link)
What I wrote in the email was spot-on.

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 01:55 am UTC (link)
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA!


So predictable. It's pathetic.

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More of Obama's fuzzy numbers
[info]d_g_h
2008-05-12 12:44 am UTC (link)

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Re: More of Obama's fuzzy numbers
[info]heirtoruin
2008-05-12 01:17 am UTC (link)
LOL!

The media stays silent! Yet George Allen said macaca one time and was roasted over it. A great example of a white republican's career being ended over a perceived racial slur while those such as Rev. Wright are given "reasonable" status over the AIDS comments and KKK-America, etc.

And let's not forget how Joe Biden said Obama was clean and articulate.. yet the MSM never made an issue of it when you know damn well any R would have been a duck in a barrel.

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Re: More of Obama's fuzzy numbers
[info]d_g_h
2008-05-12 01:29 am UTC (link)
Easy...Wright was a MARINE!!!

And all one has to do is type "W" in a Youtube search to see how much the left circle jerks over the inarticulateness of politicians who don't fall into their camp.

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Re: More of Obama's fuzzy numbers
[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 01:21 am UTC (link)
Ten THOUSAND. Holy Christ! Katrina wasn't shit. Kansas in serious trouble!

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Re: More of Obama's fuzzy numbers
[info]d_g_h
2008-05-12 01:33 am UTC (link)
Their chickens came home to roost, no doubt.

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[info]kistrael
2008-05-12 03:04 am UTC (link)
I heard about this issue with the transgendered child before somewhere, but it still doesn't cease to amaze me. There is no reason whatsoever why other children, let alone 100 of them, should be forced to listen to why Johnny thinks he's Jenny. When I was 8 I was still saying that girls had cooties and it was an entire "us versus them" sort of look to gender. I can guarantee you educating a bunch of 3rd graders on this isn't going to do any good in either the short term or the long term.

What about 4th grade? Will they have a school-wide assembly on why Johnny thinks he should have a vajayjay instead of a pee-pee? Get fucking serious. People are saying on the Haverford blog that this isn't a sexual issue. Bullshit. Once you start talking about gender reassignment it is entirely a sexual issue, though the people who think differently don't seem to make a connection between genital confusion and sexuality.

I stopped growing years ago, I've been stuck at 5'3" for the last 5 or 6 years of my life. I also have six toes. Sure I've wished I was a 5'10", five-toed person before, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm still short with two extra toes. People need to get over themselves. Take what your parents gave you and work with it. You don't need to try to rationalize everything.

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 03:26 am UTC (link)
I've been stuck at 5'3" for the last 5 or 6 years of my life. I also have six toes. Sure I've wished I was a 5'10", five-toed person before, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm still short with two extra toes. People need to get over themselves. Take what your parents gave you and work with it. You don't need to try to rationalize everything.

Dead on. Exactly. This can't sum it up better.

I don't care if he wears make up and skirts at home if mommy and daddy Unique Snowflake want to rear him that way. But they should explain that his desires, while fine if it's what he wants (not fine), are not normal, and he must act as necessary while in the company of the majority. This applies doubly so when the poor confused kid with shitty parents hasn't even hit puberty!

He can't NOT end up fucked up.

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I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]heirtoruin
2008-05-12 03:40 am UTC (link)
If my kid were in a school where transgenered Henry was now Henrietta, I guess...

Well, I figured that, by the time I got around to typing it, I'd be able to think of something...

Um.. well..it's hard to say because my gut feeling is.. "What the fuck?" but, as a scientist and based on what I understand about brain patterning, I can't say that there are not boys who have had a developmental (maybe due to genetic factors) gaffe. At the gross level, male and female brains are identical, but they are not. Thy hypothalamus and pituitaries are vastly different in their hormone secretion cycles at puberty. As I understand it, male brains are patterned by conversion of testosterone to estrogen in certain neurons. While that seems odd, the gene encoding aromatase (which converts steroids into estrogens) is largely responsible for normal male sexual behavior in mice. There is no reason to think otherwise for humans since it is also known that estrogen is required for a male brain.

Just with that knowledge alone, it is not a leap of faith to understand that a human child might have a female brain in a male body.

It's just tough to know what to do when you have a kid that might never function in society as a male... I think this could go either way. But... I also think that the kid could also attend a different school in the district around kids s/he doesn't know. There is certainly no reason to force kids to deal with it. And as for the transkid, that person is already aware that something is different if this is truly the case. I'm sure changing schools is a small price to pay.

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Re: I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 03:51 am UTC (link)
The scientific view is appreciated.

While it may be possible, I still feel the answer comes down to accepting the fact that one is different and working to deal with that fact in society as a whole.

Changing schools won't change the fact that in a few years this kid will be in a locker room with others of a different gender. Want to see me a tad displeased? Let me find out a boy is in the girls locker room with my daughter while they're changing, and the school thinks that's okay.

Neanderthal of me? Probably. Sorry.

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Re: I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]heirtoruin
2008-05-12 04:03 am UTC (link)
That situation crosses a line that shouldn't be crossed. If the kid is going to school as a girl... I guess the school board had better instate a policy that the kid will simply not shower. Then I guess that means they'd have to get a private bathroom for this kid.

I'm pretty sure nobody has thought that far ahead.

But I have no faith in the school systems as a whole after my wife's former assistant principal told her that she needed to accept the fact that kids use profanity sometimes. "Everyone does it." "What would a child advocate think?" I told her once to tell that asshole that she became a teacher because she was a child advocate and she was not going to advocate bad behavior because it meant he would have his school discipline record subject to review if he had too many office referrals. Offtopic ramblings but I'm not sober .. and not from drinking.


Do you really have a daughter?


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Re: I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 04:25 am UTC (link)
Which leads to huge wastes of money for showers, special bathrooms, etc. Ridiculous.

I'm pretty sure nobody has thought that far ahead.

Liberals and bureaucrats never do.

told her once to tell that asshole that she became a teacher because she was a child advocate

Dead on.

Do you really have a daughter?

Hypothetical daughter.

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Re: I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]kistrael
2008-05-12 06:04 am UTC (link)
I could have sworn this happened somewhere else, where the exact same thing happened, except that the child actually got a private restroom to use and the teachers had to address him as 'her.' I might be mistaken, but I'm almost 100% sure I've seen this before.

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Re: I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 01:15 pm UTC (link)
I believe so. A few months back I think I posted on it.

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Re: I kinda glossed over this out of avoidance...
[info]kistrael
2008-05-12 06:02 am UTC (link)
It's not that I'm not thinking about this in a scientific view; with a brother with Pervasive Development Disorder, and myself with ADD and polydactylism (this looks almost exactly like my foot's bone structure), I know at least a little more about mental disorders and mutations than your normal clod...

But this has more to do with the repercussions of introducing a child to his peers than the child himself. You of course know there's a vast amount of disorders attributed to hormonal imbalances. The problem isn't this- it's that children have no business learning about those sort of things, are being forced into learning things which at their age, don't need to be addressed. Hell, I didn't get "the talk" until puberty. Of course I knew the difference between boys and girls by then, but introducing something like gender confusion doesn't help anything long-term or short-term.

This introduces a whole can of worms to parents. If Johnny/Jenny thinks he's a girl, why is he a boy/girl? Does he still have boy/girl parts? Does he like boys or girls? Regardless of whether or not people try to spin this as anything other than a sexual issue, it is indeed a sexual issue. Once you deal with anything involving gender identity or genitals, it becomes irreparably a sexual issue, especially with children, who are curious about everything.

It's not that I don't believe transgenderism is possible, it's about the appropriateness of forcing others to deal with it, at an age where gender and sexuality begins and ends with "lol peepees" or "lol vajayjays."

Again, I don't disagree with you, but this is one of those proverbial straw's breaking the camel's back.

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[info]mumbalo_jack
2008-05-12 05:28 am UTC (link)
Another enviroclown: Out of season fruits should be banned because of the transportation pollution.
I've got a better idea, Libs. Let's cut to the chase on this statist hysteria and tackle a REAL problem.

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Liberal Moralist douchebags think that the planet can't sustain humanity. Well, actually, society can't sustain Liberal Moralists if they were to actually achieve their goals. If we stopped importing fruit from brazil then some liberal academic would write a paper (and stuff it with vague lexigraphed words like teleology) about how some poor brown person lost his house because we stopped buying fruit, and then the process would reverse, and then they'd come up with something else to make us feel guilty about. They... are... fucking... pathetic. Excuse my French.

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 05:34 am UTC (link)
Dead on./ And the solution in both directions would be more restrictions and bigger government.

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[info]kistrael
2008-05-12 06:20 am UTC (link)
The Liberal's view of a problem doesn't involve probable repercussions; just immediate short-term solutions which cause more long-term problems. Ban Kenyan strawberries! What about the Kenyan farmers? Save the farmers, let's subsidize foreign farming! Where should the money come from? Lower the subsidies on local farming! The people are getting fat from eating too much fast food, because they can't get produce! BAN TRANS FAT! People can't use fat in cooking! Use vegetable syrup! Corn crops are getting expensive because of ethanol and vegetable syrup! So on, so forth, ad nauseaum, et cetera.

No thought, just mindless emotional knee-jerk reactions to micromanage everything.

Besides, it's from Britain. "He says it would cut carbon emissions as less food would be imported and also lead to improved standards of cooking. I might be wrong about this, but Britain doesn't seem to be like the place for great locally-grown produce. I'd be sort of pissed if I couldn't eat bananas because of some enviro-wanker, outlawed importing bananas because Britain can't locally produce them. Besides, "improved standards of cooking?" Who the fuck are they kidding, Britain isn't known for having great cuisine, and your dishes are only as good as the ingredients you put in them. Sorry, Britain is far too north of the equator for some of the more exotic plants. Try running a great restaurant with exotic food, and let's see how long until they run out of couscous.

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[info]mumbalo_jack
2008-05-12 06:32 am UTC (link)
The Liberal's view of a problem doesn't involve probable repercussions; just immediate short-term solutions which cause more long-term problems. Ban Kenyan strawberries! What about the Kenyan farmers? Save the farmers, let's subsidize foreign farming! Where should the money come from? Lower the subsidies on local farming! The people are getting fat from eating too much fast food, because they can't get produce! BAN TRANS FAT! People can't use fat in cooking! Use vegetable syrup! Corn crops are getting expensive because of ethanol and vegetable syrup! So on, so forth, ad nauseaum, et cetera.
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Well put.

Britain doesn't seem to be like the place for great locally-grown produce.
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If you like Turnips and Potatoes, and not much else... LOL.

Britain isn't known for having great cuisine
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Actually, I loved the food while I was there. Try Yorkshire pudding & Cornish Pasties.

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Anyhow, the idea of locally-grown food is great. People can dictate the market based on their choices. However, when the government gets involved and subsidizes things and puts tariffs on others, it quite simply fucks everything up.

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[info]kistrael
2008-05-12 07:21 am UTC (link)
The cuisine part was more of a stereotype, and they're trying to change it, but historically they're not known for an adventurous palate. It doesn't matter much to me, since I'll eat practically anything.

Anyhow, the idea of locally-grown food is great. People can dictate the market based on their choices. However, when the government gets involved and subsidizes things and puts tariffs on others, it quite simply fucks everything up.

I love locally grown things. I love my own tomatoes, I love Pennsylvanian wine, I love blueberries from New Jersey. The only problem is that they're trying to dictate things not by market, but some sort of screwed enviro-ethics, which ultimately helps nobody. And there's only so much you can dictate to the market; telling people to grow locally when Britain can't sustain warm-climate fruit and vegetables just don't work at all. Like you said, roots vegetables.

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[info]mumbalo_jack
2008-05-12 07:29 am UTC (link)
Well I like manly comfort food. German & English.

If I want something spicy and adventurous, I'd go with Greek or Jordanian. Italian and French are way overrated.

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[info]melvin_udall
2008-05-12 01:17 pm UTC (link)
Man you are on a roll today! :)

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