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| I have my own vanity domain name, www.eugenerocks.com, and I'm moving the blog there. Also check out my photo albums at www.eugenerocks.com/g2
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| Take a moment if you can to read this moving speech by Virginia rep
David Englin. He spoke in response to the congressional movement to ban civil
unions. It's bona fide and is on his website at
http://www.davidenglin.org/
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this resolution. Now, I'm not
going to talk about same-sex marriage. I'm no fool -- although others might
make a different judgement about a freshman delegate rising in this chamber
on the third day of session. But I understand that on the issue of
marriage, I'm in the minority, perhaps even in my own caucus. I also sleep
very well at night knowing that at some point in the future of this great
Commonwealth, those of us of my opinion will be judged to have been on the
right side of history. But let's for a moment forget about the question of
same-sex marriage, because this amendment addresses much more than
that. We need to be clear and honest: This amendment also outlaws civil unions
and domestic partnerships and other similar private legal arrangements.
We have heard from the other side that this constitutional amendment is
necessary to protect conventional marriage. I am blessed with a
beautiful and brilliant wife who is the love of my life. In June, Shayna and I
will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, and I would fight with every
ounce of my strength anything that would threaten my marriage. So I would
like to know, how exactly civil unions and domestic partnerships and other
similar arrangements threaten my marriage?
We have heard from the other side that this amendment will protect
families. Shayna and I are blessed with a strong and bright six-year-old son,
Caleb, and we have a strong family. My friend the gentleman from Rockingham
County, Delegate Lohr, and I have discussed how we come from different
backgrounds and different parts of this great Commonwealth, yet we
share a deep and abiding commitment to our families. I want nothing more than
to protect my family. I spent 12 years wearing the uniform of the United
States Air Force to protect my family. I've been in harm's way to
protect my family. So I would like to know, how exactly do civil unions and
domestic partnerships and other similar arrangements threaten my family?
Because if they do, I will be the first one to stand up and fight,
because nobody better threaten my family.
Moreover, we have heard from the other side that this amendment must
pass sooner rather than later, as if there is some kind of crisis that is
more important than issues like transportation or education or health care.
Why else would this be our first order of business? Yet Virginia law
already makes same-sex marriage and civil unions and domestic partnerships
illegal.
So if this amendment doesn't help protect my marriage, and doesn't help
protect my family, and if it doesn't even change the status of same-sex
marriage and civil unions and domestic partnership contracts, then what
exactly does this amendment do? I submit to my fair-minded colleagues
that this amendment sends a message. And that message is, if you are gay, or
lesbian, or even a man and a woman living together and committed to each
other who are not married, you are not welcome in the Commonwealth of
Virginia.
And who are these people whom we are shutting out in the cold? They
are my dear friends Karen and Sue, who have been together for years and are as
loving and committed to each other as any husband and wife. They are my
friend Lou, who served with me at the Pentagon, and continues to serve
our country today. They are Father Mychal Judge, the gay priest who died
in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 while ministering to fallen firefighters.
They are Mark Bingham, a gay passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, who
fought back against Al Qaeda hijackers and sacrificed his life to save
others. They are Ronald Gamboa and his partner Dan Brandhorst, who,
along with their 3 year old son David, were killed when Al Qaeda flew United
Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center. They are David
Charlebois, the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the
Pentagon when Al Qaeda tried to kill me and my comrades who were on duty inside
the Pentagon at the time. They are friends and neighbors and teachers and
doctors and soldiers and loving parents who want nothing more than to
live life without fear that the government will tear their families apart.
I'm a student of history, and I find our Founding Fathers to be a great
source of wisdom on many matters, so I want to close my remarks by
reading from a letter that great Virginian named George Washington wrote more
than two centuries ago:
"The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud
themselves for giving to Mankind . . . a policy worthy of imitation.
All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It
is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the
indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent
natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which
gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires
only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as
good citizens.
May the Children of the Stock of Abraham who dwell in this land,
continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one
shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make
him afraid."
Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you, be strong and of good courage and
vote down this resolution.
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| I took a cat nap which turned into a four hour affair - this is an utterly insignificant part of my pretty insignificant life, and of course is of no interest to anyone. What IS of interest, however, is that I had a theory of computation nightmare.
I'm not joking.
I have no idea why the fuck I'd have a dream like that; this is first time ever. It was something along the lines of a AI-ish type of thing refusing to give a definition of itself. When asked, it produced a scroll giving a tautology of the question in chinese characters, and a big concrete structure attached on the rope in the end with graffiti saying, in english, "if it were so easy i'd be worthless". So i was thinking of a question that would force it give the real answer, got scared shitless for some reason, and woke up.
Mind is a wonderful thing. | | |
| I scored 71% on "How asian are you" quiz. Scary stuff... Well, i was born and raised in asia, after all, and a lot of jewish values are similar to asian values, so maybe it's not THAT surprising after all | | |
| Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.
And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?
Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?
No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off.
Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.
All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.
The next dickwad who says, "It’s your money, not the government's money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That’s right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It’s too easy, asshole, they’re blue states. It’s not your money, assholes, it’s fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.
Let’s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It’s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that’s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that’s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we're-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.
But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you're ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that's ok because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we're fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you're fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that's a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don't talk about religion as much as you because we're not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that, you self-righteous assholes? No, you're too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain't us up here in the North, assholes.
Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.
And no, you can't have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.
Thanks to anonymous at www.fuckthesouth.com for this piece.
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