Less money and less sex

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 3:44 PM PST

2006/11/01 · 15:44

We have to win this year or pack it in. When you couple this:

"The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.
Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007."

with the fact that the Republican party is dead set against raising the minimum wage you have the final test for us Democrats. The Republicans essentially feel that Americans should have less money and less sex. If we can't can't defeat that agenda we deserve to go the way of the Whigs.

Original here: http://threewaynews.blogspot.com/...

They've taken the Saturn out of Saturnalia!

jambo

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 9:45 AM PST

2005/12/13 · 09:45

This whole phony "War on Christmas" is just getting to be a little too much. Look, I don't care if you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Festivus, or the Moons of Meepzor. Enjoy yourself and follow whatever tradition seems appropriate to you. But I'm tired of a bunch of fundies whining because strangers in stores aren't making an affirmative acknowledgment of their religious beliefs every time they buy a 3-pack of tube socks. Unless their polo shirt has one of those little (footless) fish where the polo player usually is it's ridiculous for them to expect people to even know what their beliefs are.
So forget holiday greetings. From now on every time I buy something I want retailers to tell me I look like I've lost weight.

(Also posted at 3WN.)

Just whose side is the Pope on anyway?

jambo

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 2:01 PM PDT

2005/09/22 · 14:01

The fundies all claim that homosexuality is a "lifestyle choice" that is an abomination against god whereas most of us rational folks see it as an immutable inborn characteristic. After all, I don't know anyone who ever chose to be straight so it seems equally likely that no one ever chooses to be gay either. But isn't the Catholic Church here coming down on the side of immutable characteristic? Because if one is celibate they are by definition not making the supposed lifestyle choice to be gay, right? Read More

Take that, terrorists!

jambo

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Tuesday July 26, 2005 · 11:25 AM PDT

2005/07/26 · 11:25

3WN: Take that!
Driving to work just now I was listening to the play by play of the Space Shuttle Discovery launch. Maybe it's corny but I kind of get a lump in my throat over this sort of thing. And today I had a thought that kind of surprised me. A few seconds after launch as the announcer described the plume of smoke and flame and the jettisoning of the boosters 30 seconds into the flight I thought "Take that, all you fundamentalist terrorists! Look what we can do. AND it's being piloted by a woman...
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How to get out in front of the SC nomination fight

jambo

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Friday July 01, 2005 · 2:53 PM PDT

2005/07/01 · 14:53

...The Dems need to make an issue of the "advise" part of "advise and consent" phrase and put together their own list of potential nominees. There is almost no hope that they can get Bush to pick one of them but I think it is important in the framing of the debate that they try. I would put together a list of about a dozen candidates and tell the president that absent any unforeseen information coming to light any of the twelve could expect swift confirmation. On the list put 3 or 4 names that you would love to have but know you would never get, 3 or 4 names of candidates that you name just to appeal to whatever constituency you need to make happy that week, and, most importantly 3 or 4 moderate to conservative nominees that you don't really care for but figure you can live with considering that the alternative from Bush will be much much worse.... Read More

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