Conservative Culture

What do you get when you see a Republican tied to a piece of legislation and then see Ted Kennedy’s name next to it? Governmental Stupidity. Let me coin the phrase for the new definition of Bipartisanship: Equals Bigger Government and Higher Taxes.

This wonderful piece of legislation is lauded by many. On the other hand I find this piece of “Stupdity” reprehensible, dumb and dumber, and unecessary. Hope you know how I feel about this. Read this one liner from the article

“Today’s Senate vote sends a bold and unmistakable message that violent crimes committed in the name of hate must end,”

Is that the level of stupidity we have reached. All crime should stop. Are you telling us that there are crimes committed in the name of love? What an insult to our intelligence to make such an absurd statement. Crime must stop. Just another “feel good” step toward1984’s thought police.

MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION APPLAUDS U.S. SENATE TODAY
FOR PASSING HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION

Casper, WY - September 27, 2007 - The Matthew Shepard Foundation applauds today’s passage of the historic Matthew Shepard Act — inclusive federal hate crimes legislation.

“Today’s Senate vote sends a bold and unmistakable message that violent crimes committed in the name of hate must end,” said Judy and Dennis Shepard, Matthew Shepard’s parents. “The Matthew Shepard Act is an essential step to erasing hate in America and we are humbled that it bears our son’s name. It has been almost nine years since Matthew was taken from us. This bill is a fitting tribute to his memory and to all of those who have lost their lives to hate.”

“We are especially thankful to Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) for their unwavering leadership in ensuring the passage of this bill,” said Judy Shepard, Executive Director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Wonder how our “conservative sounding when election time comes” Republican Senator did? Do you really have to ask?

Democrats and Independents voted for the amendment, and were joined by nine Republicans: Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), George Voinovich (R-Ohio), and John Warner (R-Va.).

If the Ohio GOP was smart they would talk good ol’ George to resign and allow an replacement for the coming election. I fear George will be “DeWined” this next round. Did I say fear?

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Since we slowed down to try and get the wordpress upgraded… which didn’t work as we hoped… we are finally back up. However we are expecting to not start posting new posts until Monday. One of us may surprise the others by managing to post something Sunday. We shall see.

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Stop the ACLU Blogburst

Recently, the ACLU set their doomsday clock at six minutes before midnight! Once it reaches the ‘dark hour’ of midnight…we will be slaves to the ominous and evil ’surviellance society’. This isn’t science fiction. This is typical scare tactics from the ACLU.

They prey upon the paranoid. This is how they get donations to fund their machine. They cry about “American citizens being spied upon” when in fact there is no evidence that anyone has been hurt by the government’s terrorist surviellance program.

While the ACLU cry that they are the guardian’s of liberty, and that privacy is one of those liberties….they have been exposed as being violators of that very liberty. They have a massive database of their own member’s private financial information they use for soliciting donations.

The group’s new data collection practices were implemented without the board’s approval or knowledge and were in violation of the ACLU’s privacy policy at the time, according to Michael Meyers, vice president of the organization and a frequent internal critic. He said he had learned about the new research by accident Nov. 7 during a meeting of the committee that is organizing the group’s Biennial Conference in July.

He objected to the practices, and the next day, the privacy policy on the group’s Web site was changed. “They took out all the language that would show that they were violating their own policy,” Meyers said. “In doing so, they sanctified their procedure while still keeping it secret.”

Now the ACLU are proudly defending Rep. Larry Craig on grounds of privacy. In another recent case they are defending a “pre-operative transsexual” anatomically male’s “right” to use the female public restroom. Terrence Jeffrey calls out the ‘privacy hypocrisy’ on this one.

“The government does not have a constitutionally sufficient justification for making private sex a crime,” said the ACLU. “It follows that an invitation to have private sex is constitutionally protected and may not be made a crime. This is so even where the proposition occurs in a public place, whether in a bar or a restroom.”

But then the ACLU went a step further, arguing that there is not only a right to solicit sex, but also to engage in it, in a public restroom.

“The Minnesota Supreme Court,” said the ACLU, “has already ruled that two men engaged in sexual activity in a department store restroom with the stall door closed had a reasonable expectation of privacy. They were, the Court held, therefore acting in a private, not a public place.”

The conflated logic of the ACLU’s bathroom briefs seems to be that someone entering a public restroom intending to use it for traditional purposes has no protection either from the gender sign posted at the door or from the otherwise vaunted right to privacy. Someone entering a public restroom intending to solicit and engage in sex, on the other hand, is protected by both the First Amendment and the right to privacy.

What else would you expect from a group that embraces an ideology that holds that partially born babies have no right to keep their skulls intact?

Indeed. As my good friend Glib Fortuna puts it:

This about sums up the ACLU’s worldview. To the ACLU, the only “freedom” the ACLU truly believes in is “sexual freedom” and the concomitant “right” of people who choose aberrant sexual behavior to be free of any criticism and free from anyone else exercising common sense (and more threateningly, religious liberty) if it “infringes” on these “rights” recently invented by the ACLU and its partisans.

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I am sure I will hear from all the non-lactating students. But a Medical Student who has a 4 month old needs to pump milk. The Medical Exam Board was unwilling to accommodate the request. So she took it to court and won (so far). There was a time when such common sense accommodations could be made but for fear of lawsuits and equality. If we are to be a culture supportive of families one would think that an extra hour would be calling for too much. But then again its because others take advantage of good will that others are reluctant.

A Harvard student must be given extra break time during a medical licensing exam to pump breast milk, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled yesterday.

The student, Sophie C. Currier, 33, of Brookline, Mass., had sued the National Board of Medical Examiners after it denied her request for more than the standard 45 minutes of allotted breaks during the nine-hour exam, which she will take over two days.

She said she risked medical complications if she did not nurse her 4-month-old daughter, Lea, or pump breast milk every two or three hours.

In overturning a ruling that denied Ms. Currier the additional 60 minutes of break time she requested, Judge Gary Katzmann said yesterday that she needed the extra time so she could be on “equal footing” with men and nonlactating women taking the test.

The medical examining board said that although it planned to appeal, it would give Ms. Currier the additional time if Judge Katzmann’s order is still in effect when she takes the exam, set for next week. She must pass the exam, which tests clinical knowledge, to receive her medical degree. Without it, she cannot start her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Carnival Number 84

OK, yeah that one was obvious. For about thirty seconds I considered rendering the entire Carnival in Newspeak, but that would be doubleplus ungood. The purpose of Newspeak as conceptualized by Orwell, is not simply to eliminate words that express “dangerous” ideas, but to so cleanse the language of nuance and abstraction that it not longer can be used to express ideas of any kind. That makes it a troublesome vehicle for talking about politics.

Worse, the resultant staccato reads horribly.

1984 predicted a totalitarianism that secured power not only by force, but also by monopolizing the flow of information. To be among bloggers is to be among those who refuse to allow anyone to control them by controlling information. No source of ideas or data — left or right, government or corporate, mainstream or fringe — escapes scrutiny in the blogosphere. No docile Outer Party members are we.

So welcome everybody to the 84th Carnival of Ohio Thoughtcrime.

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