Author: Thomas More

You know, it’s true: gay people don’t need the state to validate their relationships with civil marriage.

I wonder why straight couples need that so much.

The right has become so predictable in its reactions to the steady stream of crap coming out of the White House, that I thought I’d try a little experiment – predict what some people would say to the following story in the Commie baby-killing MSM:

White House staff holds ritual puppy slaughter

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Bush and high-ranking administration officials cut the throats of 12 labrador puppies on the White House’s South Lawn Sunday, marking the first of what the President said will become an annual “sacrifice to Baal.”

and the reactions…

Ann Coulter
“If only Michael Moore and Howard Dean were puppies.”

Rush Limbaugh
“I’m sure welfare mothers in Detroit are cooking and eating puppies right now. But you don’t hear Dan Rather crying about that, now do you?”

Bill O’Reilly
“If it’s gonna help the troops, then I think the folks will be for it. And they don’t need the Hollywood media telling them what they should think about this.”

Dean Esmay
“Michael Moore, that fat Holocaust-denying hatemonger bastard, has more blood on his hands than anyone in this administration. And I’ll spit in the face of anyone who says differently.”

Scott McClellan
“I knew nothing about this.”

Dick Cheney
“After 9/11, everything changed. And believe me, not doing the sacrifice would have been worse than the alternative. The American people want us to keep them safe, and that’s exactly what we were doing.”

Random Free Republic commenter
“Hey, if it takes cutting the throats of a few puppies to win the War on Terror, I say ‘BRING IT ON,’ baby! Maybe they’ll do some of those filthy gays next.”

La Shawn Barber
“If we’re not careful, we’re going to politically-correct ourselves into another 9/11. I was talking to my good friend Michelle Malkin the other day, and she and I agree – a few puppies is a small price to pay. (Watch for me on CNN tomorrow at 2!)”

Matt Drudge
“PUPPIES OWNED BY HUSSEIN BROTHERS…. DEVELOPING”

Adam Yoshida
“If our leaders can’t kill a few puppies without shedding tears, how are they going to muster up the courage to kill all those Muslims with nuclear bombs? This is a good start, if nothing else.”

Kim du Toit
“A real man would’ve shot ’em.”

So I’m watching Fox “News” the other night. And they break in with a field report on the Pope’s illness. There’s the field reporter, clearly standing out in front of the Rome hospital where the leader of millions of Catholics around the world is gravely ill inside.

And he ends up his piece with the line, “So there are a lot of reporters out here on a *very cold night.*”

Yeah. It’s all about you, Bunky.

Then, they were teasing an interview with Katherine Jackson, mother of Jacko, currently on trial for child molestation. So they show a clip of an ultra-coiffed blonde interviewer, who leans into the camera conspiratorily and intones, “How. much. do. you…. love. your. son.?!”

Fox “News” should be shut down on humanitarian grounds. As Mrs. Lovejoy would say, “Won’t someone think of the children?!”

If Oprah Winfrey ran for President in 2008, she’d probably win in a landslide.

Watching Michael Medved waxing poetic about Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” on Bill O’Reilly last night (following guest Ann Coulter – a crapweasel trifecta all in the same hour), I wondered:

What if Gibson had made a movie about Jesus Cruz, a poor L.A. gangbanger, who is graphically tortured for two hours by a rival gang and then horribly killed? Would Medved be “overwhelmed by its lyrical sweep and devastating immediacy”? Would church groups across the country have organized bus trips to buy out theaters showing it? Would Gibson be hailed as courageous in his moral crusade to make the movie, despite major studios’ unwillingness to show two hours of closeup torture?

Here’s my memo to Democrats. It’s pretty simple:

Stop apologizing. Stop giving in. Stop pandering. Stop biting your tongue. Stop trying to be something you’re not. Stop being afraid. Stop being ashamed. Stop being a victim.

Stop it stop it stop it.

Fight back. Stand up for what you believe in. Speak out, clearly and simply. Take back the word “liberal” – right now. Step up.

There’s a lot more, but you get the point. The more we act like we don’t know or stand behind what we believe in, the more we lose. Americans value confidence and belief much more than they care what those specific beliefs are. The whole point of being a progressive is fighting for what you believe. Let’s start fighting.

“Never give up. Never surrender.”

-Capt. Peter Quincy Taggart, Galaxy Quest

HOMER: Marge, it takes two to lie – one to lie, and one to listen.

———

LISA: Dad, did you know that in China they use the same word for both “crisis” and “opportunity”?

HOMER: Yes! Crisatunity!

———-

HOMER: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a

charm.

LISA: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.

HOMER: Thank you, dear.

LISA: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.

HOMER: Oh, how does it work?

LISA: It doesn’t work.

HOMER: Uh-huh.

LISA: It’s just a stupid rock.

HOMER: Uh-huh.

LISA: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?

[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]

HOMER: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.

———–

MARGE: I wonder if he’s going to say anything about that horrible fish.

HOMER: Oh, Marge. What’s the big deal?

I bet before the papers blew this out of proportion,

you didn’t even know how many eyes a fish had.

— Watching Burns’ campaign advertisement,

“Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish”

———–

MARY BAILEY: My worthy opponent thinks that the voters of this state

are gullible fools. I, however, prefer to rely on their

intelligence and good judgement.

REPORTER: Interesting strategy.

“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop – ever – until you are dead.”

“For an awful lot of people on the losing side, there’s going to be a sense of alienation, of, is this the country we thought it was?”

-David Gergen

Unfortunately, my answer is yes.