But you know what they say, if conservatives paid attention to facts, they would be liberals.
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.
But you know what they say, if conservatives paid attention to facts, they would be liberals.
Hey if you want somebody to talk about "bull sex" and blame suicide on the victim's friends and family. Then Alaska's Rep. Don Young is your man.
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| "And that's how gay sex works. Buncha perverts." |
The Alaska Dispatch News reported that students and staff at Wasilla High School said U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-AK) "acted in a disrespectful and sometimes offensive manner to some students, used profanity and started talking about bull sex when confronted with a question about same-sex marriage" during his 60-minute appearance.
When one student asked Young why he thought same-sex marriage was so bad, the congressman responded: “You can’t have marriage with two men. What do you get with two bulls?” according to Wasilla Principal Amy Spargo. (Apparently Young answered "bullshit" to that last question.)
Witnesses told the Dispatch News that Young's comments on suicide also stunned the assembly, as students and staff were mourning the loss of a Wasilla student who took his own life last week. Young mentioned alcohol and depression and said that suicide shows a lack of support from friends and family, according to the witnesses.
"When I heard 'a lack of support from family' and I heard 'a lack of support from friends,' I felt the oxygen go out of the room, but I gasped as well," Spargo told the newspaper. "It just isn't true in these situations. It's just such a hurtful thing to say."
Apparently Young's office realized that the fossil had once again made a giant fool of himself so they issued a half assed apology:
“Congressman Young was very serious and forthright when discussing the issue of suicide, in part because of the high number of tragedies that affect Alaskan youth. He discussed what he believes are leading causes of youth suicide in our state and shared some suggestions for helping family members and friends who are dealing with suicidal thoughts,” spokesman Matt Shuckerow wrote in an email. “In no way did Congressman Young mean to upset anyone with his well-intentioned message. In light of the tragic events affecting the Wasilla High School community, he should have taken a much more sensitive approach.”
According to the Dispatch Young also said that one of the students who challenged him in the discussion needed "to learn some respect."
I imagine that when that young man is in the presence of somebody deserving respect he will do just that.
Pat Robertson claims that thanks to the Supreme Court the "onslaught of homosexual behavior" is having "deadly consequences."
Courtesy of Raw Story:
“This onslaught of homosexual behavior that is being forced on us by the Supreme Court of the United States is having deadly consequences,” Robertson announced on the Monday edition of The 700 Club. “I was afraid it was going to happen. It has happened now in Idaho.”
“If I were that couple, I’d get ahead of the curve. I’d get on an airplane and leave Idaho or get in your car and drive across the border into Montana,” the TV preacher recommended. “Get out of that state. And if need be, close your chapel down. I mean, just get out ahead of it because this is outrageous.”
You know I am not sure that Robertson clearly understand just how far progress has spread on this issue. Currently there are 31 states where same sex marriage is legal, and only 19 that are still fighting the inevitable.
That does not leave a whole lot of places that you can drive to from Idaho where these people can get away from "teh gays."
By the way does anybody have a body count as to how many people have been killed thus far by this "deadly" increase in same sex marriage?
“This onslaught of homosexual behavior that is being forced on us by the Supreme Court of the United States is having deadly consequences,” Robertson announced on the Monday edition of The 700 Club. “I was afraid it was going to happen. It has happened now in Idaho.”
“If I were that couple, I’d get ahead of the curve. I’d get on an airplane and leave Idaho or get in your car and drive across the border into Montana,” the TV preacher recommended. “Get out of that state. And if need be, close your chapel down. I mean, just get out ahead of it because this is outrageous.”
You know I am not sure that Robertson clearly understand just how far progress has spread on this issue. Currently there are 31 states where same sex marriage is legal, and only 19 that are still fighting the inevitable.
By the way does anybody have a body count as to how many people have been killed thus far by this "deadly" increase in same sex marriage?
First male couple marries in Alaska. Somewhere Jerry Prevo is beating his head against a wall.
Alaska history was made Saturday night as the first male couple exchanged “I do’s” in Anchorage.
Big Lake residents Gene Zola, 62, and Bob Deloach, 75, legally married at Raven in Downtown Anchorage.
The two men have been together for more than 40 years.
I think that if a couple remains together for 40 years it does not matter WHAT gender they are, they should be allowed to get married anywhere in the world.
By the way first female Alaskan couple married last week in Barrow of all places.
For those trivia buffs you might like to know that Big Lake is just a hop skip and a jump away from Wasilla, and that Sarah Palin also won the title of Miss Big Lake the year after she won the Miss Wasilla title so that she could have a second shot at the Miss Alaska title, which she failed to win for the second time in a row.
As if Alaskans needed another reason to vote Sean Parnell out of office.
The future of the health care program that covers some of Alaska’s poorest residents hinges largely on who voters elect governor in November.
Republican Gov. Sean Parnell refused to extend Medicaid last year under the Affordable Care Act, what he called Obamacare. In a recent interview with Alaska Dispatch News, Parnell said expansion is “overly costly” and would put “an even greater burden on an already unsustainable system," though he said he is open to other means of Medicaid reform.
Parnell's independent challenger, Bill Walker, said that if elected governor he would immediately accept Medicaid expansion, extending health care coverage to Alaskans who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $19,800 for a single adult. But Walker, an attorney and former mayor of Valdez, said that once federal funding for the expansion dips below 100 percent -- it is set to decrease to 95 percent in 2017 -- the state will have to re-examine its decision.
“If it helps Alaskans, then we should do it,” Walker said in an interview Wednesday with ADN.
Even once it dips below 100% there is no way this is still not a great deal for Alaskans, and I seriously doubt that anybody could take it away once Alaskans started to receive this benefit. But hey I understand politics in Alaska, and know that Walker has to say things like this for the benefit of the mouth breathers.
As it says further down in the article this Medicaid expansion would affect between 10,000 to 41,000 Alaskans, including your favorite Alaska blogger.
So to sum up Sean Parnell did not do his job to protect personnel in the Alaska National Guard despite the fact that he was being asked to do so for essentially his entire term in office.
Governor Parnell also attempted to stand in the way of progress by challenging the findings of a US District Court judge that the same sex ban in Alaska was unconstitutional. Even though similar attempts in other states had ultimately failed.
And now we know that the only thing standing between tens of thousands of Alaskans receiving much needed healthcare is Sean Parnell.
What more do we need Alaskans? What more do we need?
Gay marriage is back on the menu boys! (And of course girls.)
A stay temporarily halting same-sex marriages in Alaska expired Friday, technically making it legal for couples to seek marriage licenses in the state, while the U.S. Supreme Court denied a further stay sought by the state.
Just one minute after the 9th Circuit stay was dissolved, in a one-line response, U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a further stay from the state of Alaska.
But while marriages can go forward immediately, with state offices closed Friday in observance of Alaska Day, marriages will not resume until Monday morning.
I tweeted this to my daughter yesterday the minute that I got the news.
It made her day.
However I want to make damn sure that the voters of this state remember that it was Sean Parnell, currently running for reelection, who caused this delay in the first place, and kept people long denied this right, the opportunity to get married this week.
And please, vote accordingly.
Sean Parnell puts the brakes on Alaska same sex marriage. Good political move there Captain Zero.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay halting same-sex marriage in Alaska Wednesday, a day after a lower court denied a similar request.
The two-page order granted a temporary stay in Sunday's Hamby v. Parnell ruling until 11 a.m. Alaska time Friday, giving the state an opportunity to seek a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court.
The state said it would seek the higher court stay and enforce the stay at the 9th Circuit. Department of Law Spokeswoman Cori Mills said in an email “the state cannot issue any marriage licenses until the stay is lifted.”
“The state will be filing a request for a stay with the U.S. Supreme Court, as suggested by the Ninth Circuit in its order granting a temporary stay,” she wrote.
Wednesday's decision marks another day of a legal back and forth in the ruling. Sunday U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess found Alaska's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional. He denied a stay for the order Tuesday. The state quickly appealed for a decision at the 9th Circuit.
Here's the thing.
Alaska IS going to have same sex marriage. That is a certainty.
All Parnell is doing is delaying the inevitable, and absolutely losing the support of any reasonable Alaskan who is not some Bible thumping fundamentalist asshole.
Parnell was already slightly behind Bill Walker in polls back in September, but once you combine this decision with the ongoing Alaska National Guard scandal, it looks as if Parnell is a drowning man reflexively putting rocks in his pockets.
All I can do at this time is cheer him on, "Go Sean, go!"
You idiot!
