DADT is social engineering

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Wednesday September 22, 2010 · 8:07 AM PDT

2010/09/22 · 08:07

Originally posted at my blog, www.psychictoaster.com:

I was recently engaged in a debate on DADT, spurred by yesterday’s disappointing vote. While debating, one of the people said this:

If your purpose is to keep an effective military, [repealing DADT] doesn’t help. If your purpose is social engineering, just say so.

(Bolding mine.)

That phrase stuck out to me. At first, I just passed over it and didn’t immediately respond, instead I replied to the other points being made. But as I thought about it, it occurred to me that this is what this debate is really about. There is a belief out there that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and allowing gays to serve openly in the military is an attempt at social engineering.

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Thursday May 13, 2010 · 10:03 AM PDT

2010/05/13 · 10:03

Taking inspiration from this recent Back In Black piece by Lewis Black:
http://tinyurl.com/...

I think it's time we joined with Glenn Beck in finding, identifying, and publicly shaming every Nazi conspiracy in the world. Hopefully, if we can find and identify all of them, Glenn Beck will finally shut the hell up about Nazis, something he clearly has enough knowledge about to know that he is making shit up.

JOIN THE HUNT FOR THE NAZSPIRACY!

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 9:47 AM PST

2009/12/15 · 09:47

You have your damn ball, a bill that contains none of the measures that ensure competiton. None of that public alternative stuff, no Medicare buy-in(your idea btw, not mine, but I liked it while it lasted), none of that pesky antitrust reform even. So it doesn't contain tort reform or interstate sale, but you'll take what you can get, right? Hell, why haven't you gone for broke on that one yet? Apparently Reid even told you he'd let you all but write the bill.

So, you have your ball. Now go fuck off home with yourself.

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 7:32 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 07:32

So, today I was invited to join a Facebook group called "DOWN WITH SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, AND THE GLOBALISTIC SCHEME!!" On their front page was a discussion board topic that said, "here is the health care bill." First, nowhere in the link was a copy of the bill. Instead, what was there was a point by point exaggeration of the bill. I know this email has been floating around a while, and I know there are other refutations out there. My reply is below the fold.

Here's a breakdown by someone who has read the house bill. This is not a health care bill. It's a takeover of our whole society - including our personal bank accounts!!! These maniacs MUST BE STOPPED!!!

Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill

Following the mad recommendations of Peter Singer made in NYT's Sunday magazine, it pays to take a look at what is actually in the healthcare bill.

It's worse than you can possibly imagine. Somehow, it manages to be Singer on steroids. Who wrote this bill? It has Singer's footprints all over it.

Peter Fleckstein (aka Fleckman) is reading it and has been posting on Twitter his findings. This is from his postings (Note: All comments are Fleckman's)

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Tuesday August 11, 2009 · 7:01 AM PDT

2009/08/11 · 07:01

For those who can stomach it, it's on Faux News this morning right now.

He's currently in the Q & A

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Tuesday August 04, 2009 · 1:37 PM PDT

2009/08/04 · 13:37

Rather than explain political philosophy in the form of abstract, arbitrary terms with highly subjective interpretations, I am going to employ a more concrete approach: the time honored "If I were in charge" list. The advantage of expressing political views via unilateral decisions with unchecked authority is clarity. After all, I don't describe myself as "liberal" the same way Nancy Pelosi does(let alone how Europeans do).

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Thursday December 11, 2008 · 8:30 AM PST

2008/12/11 · 08:30

IF YOU SPENT: WOULD YOU SPEND:

$7 on gasoline $0.15 to pump up your tires?
$70 on lottery tickets $1.50 on a loaf of bread?
$700 on a faith healing seminar $15 for your physician’s visit copay?
$7000 on an Alaskan vacation $150 on a winter coat?
$70,000 on mortgage interest $1500 to fix the heater?
$700,000 on on lights and staging $15000 for a field organizer in NC?

Of course.

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 8:46 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 08:46

This is a short diary, and I have no way of uploading the video of this but I'll be looking for it online. If anyone else finds video of it first, please leave a link in the comments and I'll update it.

At a campaign rally in Ohio, Sarah Palin uttered the following:

"The choice is between a candidate that will threaten our future (pause for cheer) and a man that will work for you in Washington."

This is exactly the kind of dangerous and inciting rhetoric that makes supporters feel it is necessary to use violence to make their point.

Early Voting Kickoff w/ Sen. Kerry

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 10:03 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 22:03

Today on the campus of the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, Senator John Kerry headlined a pro-Obama early voting rally. Local candidates Gordon Hintz and Jess King joined Senator Kerry in leading a march from the UW-O campus to the city clerk's office. Below the fold I have my account of the event with pictures and video.

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Tuesday June 10, 2008 · 12:05 AM PDT

2008/06/10 · 00:05

The pardoning of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and everyone else involved in his activities.

A status of forces agreement that subsequent presidents will be expected to uphold; a treaty by any other name that Congress never has a say in.

If George W. Bush is not added to the list of presidents put in front of impeachment proceedings, then what right will any future congress claim to ever impeach a president?

"Emergency" spending bills for the Iraq war.

Carrier groups in the Indian Ocean prepared for a strike against Iran.

PsychicToaster

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Thursday June 22, 2006 · 10:07 AM PDT

2006/06/22 · 10:07

Whether it started with a metal tricycle, or a molded plastic Big Wheels, it was a start. That first set of wheels, that first taste of mobility. You'd slip into your velcro'ed shoes and ride to the end of the block and back as fast as you could. Eventually your parents got you that strange upright contraption with only two wheels. The bicycle. But like frankenstein's monster it had appendages bolted on: training wheels. Read More

The Parable of Bob

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Saturday November 19, 2005 · 5:32 PM PST

2005/11/19 · 17:32

Bob is a responsible businessman in Omro, Wisconsin. Omro is a small town, just over 1,000 people, due west of the county seat of 70,000. It is landlocked and has a single state highway in and out, and only one traffic light. But Bob opened a factory here in 1957 to make lamps. Read More

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