My third and final response to emjem24, a loathesome homophobe who comments at Michelle Malkin’s blog.

emjem24
This is just another ploy to create another special group of protected people like minorities who’ve enjoyed special privileges for decades.

I would love to see you tell a black man to his face that he’s a member of a protected, specially privileged minority. He would break your face.

emjem24
How ’bout treating homosexuality for what it actual is: a statistical anomaly?

How about treating homosexuals for what they are; human beings with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

emjem24
They don’t get the same protections because they don’t have the same kind of relationships that heterosexual couples have.

“Black people don’t get the same protections as Whites because they don’t have the same kind of racial heritage that Caucasian people have.” Same logic, same disgusting bigotry, and you evoke the same feeling and degree of contempt from myself as if that was actually what you said.

emjem24
I’m sick of this PC crap. No wonder it rains in the Northwest so much. These crybaby liberals and their gay buddies never stop cryin’ and bellyachin’ about what they’re owed by the rest of us who could give a damn. Washington is just another blue state gone crazy.

You do owe gay people the same rights that others get; it’s called “equal protection under the law.” You do owe gay people the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness“; those are called “unalienable” rights.

Yesterday I started responding to homophobic bigot and redundant redundancy emjem24, who left a dumbass comment on Michelle Malkin’s blog. Here, I continue my response.

emjem24
Heaven forbid none of us want homosexuality and its lifestyle crammed down our throats and taught to our kids.

When millions join a movement hell-bent on rewriting state constitutions to forbid heterosexual Christian marriage, then you can complain about other people meddling with your lifestyle. Until that time, you’re just a fucking hypocrite. And homosexuality is a sexuality. You can’t “teach” it to someone. It’s not like Karate or Algebra.

emjem24
What these liberal morons seem to be saying is, tradition, religion and all their tenets are a threat to THEM.

You do know that most liberals, like most people generally (myself included), aren’t gay, right? I can’t speak for anyone else, but personally I don’t have a horse in this race. I’m not gay and none of my friends or family are gay either. Some of us take political positions for reasons other than consolidating our own power or lording it over people we don’t like.

emjem24
A life with no rules, structure, is not a life.
It’s chaos… especially for the rest of us who get caught up in the experiment.

It’s not “an experiment,” it’s the extension of liberty to those who have asked for it, in other words, basic human decency. And how the fuck are you getting “caught up in it”? The only people affected by same-sex marriage rights are people seeking same sex marriages. Or are you afraid that should these rights be legalized you might find the option tempting?

emjem24
I’m not overly religious and I could care less if people are gay or not. What you do in private is YOUR business just recognize that larger society doesn’t accept it or tolerate it.

“I’m not overly flamboyant and I could care less if people are straight or not. What you do in private is YOUR business just recognize that larger society doesn’t accept it or tolerate openly heterosexual people.” Somehow, if that scenario were actually playing out, I suspect you would be bitching about your own rights. Hypocrite.

emjem24 is a stupid bigot who’s awful fond of the idea that gay Americans are second class citizens. He recently spewed his hate on the intertubes in a comment on the equally despicable Michelle Malkin’s blog. Here, I respond.

emjem24
What an utter waste of a referendum. I just got through reading some of the poster comments and it’s a pretty heavy mix between those who disagree on religious grounds and those who think that gays “deserve” equal treatment and rights.

Did you really just put scare quotes around “deserve”? God you’re a bastard. They just want to get married. What’s the big fucking deal?

emjem24
Those in the pro camp are not only deluded but they have no freaking idea what impact this will have on the larger society. It isn’t just about healthcare access, benefits, etc. It’s encouragement to what is, in all intents and purposes, an alternative lifestyle.

Oh no, not alternative lifestyle! Don’t those fucking queers know that this is America? Land of the free-to-live-your-life-as-I-deem-fit-for-you. Conform to my wishes or shut up!

emjem24
It was a very poorly worded piece of legislation. I agree with you there. People are so hell bent on an anything goes society, that I begin to wonder why have rules at all? Why have morals or ethics? When you look at Washington, it’s no wonder it’s such a liberal stronghold.

An “anything goes” life where others’ standards and rules are not forced upon you is called a “free” life. I know that might not be easy for an authoritarian like yourself to understand, but that’s how it is. Supposedly this concept is the foundation for our society.

emjem24
Heaven forbid anybody should judge anybody else… even though it happens to all of us on a daily basis.

“Heaven forbid anybody should murder anybody else… even though it happens to dozens of us on a daily basis.” Seriously, that’s the logic you’re using. “It happens a lot, therefore it’s ok.” Moron.

Land of the Servile

Congratulations, Maine, almost 53% of your population are shitty Americans, and shitty human beings generally. America: land of the not as free as the Canadians, South Africans, Belgians, Spanish, Norwegians, Swedish or Dutch. Conservatives are right about one thing; the battle over gay marriage really is about the soul of our country’s values. Sadly, the bad guys are winning.

The MS Oasis of the Seas has finally been completed. Since the Oasis is the world’s largest passenger ship, you may be curious as to how previous contenders stack up, like Noah’s Ark for example. The answer is “not so well;” the Oasis actually dwarfs the biblical dimensions given for the mythical vessel.

A modern cruise ship with almost 14 times the volume allegedly posessed by Noah's Ark. Photo by Ereine.

The Oasis is bigger in every dimension except one, width. The newly completed marvel of modern engineering is 1,181 feet long, 236 feet tall, and 74 feet wide. Its volume is 20,624,984 cubic feet, a volume nearly 14 times greater than Noah’s Ark itself! I wonder if it has an onboard zoo?

The Paleobiota key template has had an additional color added to it; red for accepted species no longer listed under the original genus.

Archaeornithomimus. Photo by Laikayiu.

For instance, in the Bissekty Formation a species of the dubious genus Amtosaurus was found to be unique enough to warrent the erection of a new genus to contain it, Bissektipelta.

So, the listing of “Amtosaurus archibaldi” has the genus in grey (dubious) and the species in red (reclassified). The now proper taxon Bissektipelta archibaldi is listed under normal colors as accepted. I left Dinoguy a message to see if he approved of the new color, but he’s not gotten back to me yet.

The mekosuchines Baru (larger) and Harpacochampsa (long snout). Art by Apokryltaros.

I’ve added dinosaur lists to the following geologic formation articles:

Hesperornis. Art by Arthur Weasly

Some whiny ass Christian recently got fired from Home Depot for wearing a pin with the phrase “One nation under God, indivisible” written on it. Since he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer he thinks he’s being attacked for his religion and his patriotism and he’s just ever so confused.

Newsflash buddy; you don’t get to play martyr until someone tries to feed you to a lion. Or sponsors a campaign to add a constitutional amendment banning Christian marriage. You broke the dresscode, and when your employers politely and patiently tried to compromise with you (they offered him the chance to wear a “United We Stand” pin), you threw it in their faces and refused. Then they justly canned your ass.

Not coercive or theocratic in the slightest.

And quit pretending to “love [your] country.” You were showing utter contempt for the United States with that pin. You cannot love the United States and bandy about the pledge of allegiance at the same time; the values of these entities are polar opposites. Observe:

Pledge: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America…One nation under God”
USA: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”

There is no reconciliation between using the government to promote theistic religion and the idea that peoples’ free exercise is not being prohibited. You can’t love America and love the Pledge.

The Democratic Party campaign for healthcare reform continues to sicken me; they’re going with the opt out option. I have a hard time believing what cowards Democrats are. Despite having complete control of congress they waffle and whine and can barely be motivated to pursue their own agenda.

The Caduceus

In the end, a public plan with an opt out option is better than nothing. However, all the option will ensure is that in the deep south healthy red necks will get to decide whether or not sick poor people can have access to healthcare. And we know what that choice’ll be. It saddens me that in order to get passed a bill has to give the option for the south to opt out.

What’s the point of even being a country if whenever we collectively decide to do something as a nation you guys try to get out of it? Whether it’s gay rights, hate crime legislation, slavery, healthcare, or abortion rights; the deep south has a history of thinking it’s too good for the rest of the country. Just secede again already if America isn’t good enough. We know you want to.

Because global warming, war, the economic crisis, our crumbling infrastructure, and nuclear proliferation are not serious enough issues to occupy our elected officials, Rhode Island lawmakers recently attended to the very important business of ensuring that sex does not cost money in their state. Up until lately Rhode Island was one of the few states whose citizens enjoyed the freedom to, if they so chose, do business with prostitutes.

Life? Liberty? Happiness? Fuck that shit, I'm moralizin'!

Critics of the move might point out that it goes against everything the USA allegedly stands for, namely the right to live freely in a way that makes them happy. Of course people who fret over things like that are chicken little alarmists; Rhode Islanders are perfectly free… to live by the standards set by the meddlesome moralizers they apparently elected.

Besides, only evil degenerates would ever have sex with prostitutes. I know this because a man in a suit told me he read about it in an anthology of the edited and translated writings of prescientific desert barbarians which was dictated to them by an invisible man who lives in the sky! And you don’t want to make the invisible man who lives in the sky angry, do you?