I promised I was gonna cut back on the PASWO (Point As Something With Outrage) crap, but this is far too outrageous.
Yesterday, George Bush's inheritor and the current governor of Texas, Rick Perry, signed anti-abortion legislation in a massive grandstanding ceremony in a church, and then went on to sign a resolution banning gay marriage. Before the ceremony, he sent out emails to various Christian organizations, saying "We want to completely fill this location with pro-family Christian friends who can celebrate with us."
The resolution to ban gay marriage was completely gratuitous; it had already passed the legislature and his signature wasn't required under Texas law. He did it just to rub in the stinging rebuke of it. And then the man had the audacity to say of gays, "If there are other states more lenient, maybe that's a better place to live."
I wonder if he'll provide the locomotive and boxcars.
(From Obsidian Wings.)
From the New York Times comes this description of class warfare:
Read it all. Be very scared. Between the news that social climbing isn't nearly as commonplace as Americans believe and has been declining for fifty years, and the fact that the middle class helped elect an administration whose policies allow its cronies to shock and awe the middle class into almost cowering submission, I have little hope for a rosy future for my country.
Finally, frustratingly, the Tulsa, OK, county council has instructed the local zoo to include the Biblical story of Creation in its park gates tableau.
Yesterday, George Bush's inheritor and the current governor of Texas, Rick Perry, signed anti-abortion legislation in a massive grandstanding ceremony in a church, and then went on to sign a resolution banning gay marriage. Before the ceremony, he sent out emails to various Christian organizations, saying "We want to completely fill this location with pro-family Christian friends who can celebrate with us."
The resolution to ban gay marriage was completely gratuitous; it had already passed the legislature and his signature wasn't required under Texas law. He did it just to rub in the stinging rebuke of it. And then the man had the audacity to say of gays, "If there are other states more lenient, maybe that's a better place to live."
I wonder if he'll provide the locomotive and boxcars.
(From Obsidian Wings.)
From the New York Times comes this description of class warfare:
Draw a line under the top 0.1 percent of income earners - the top one-thousandth. Above that line are about 145,000 taxpayers, each with at least $1.6 million in income and often much more.
The average income for the top 0.1 percent was $3 million in 2002, the latest year for which averages are available. That number is two and a half times the $1.2 million, adjusted for inflation, that group reported in 1980. No other income group rose nearly as fast.
The share of the nation's income earned by those in this uppermost category has more than doubled since 1980, to 7.4 percent in 2002. The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10 percent rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90 percent fell.
Read it all. Be very scared. Between the news that social climbing isn't nearly as commonplace as Americans believe and has been declining for fifty years, and the fact that the middle class helped elect an administration whose policies allow its cronies to shock and awe the middle class into almost cowering submission, I have little hope for a rosy future for my country.
Finally, frustratingly, the Tulsa, OK, county council has instructed the local zoo to include the Biblical story of Creation in its park gates tableau.
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