tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1978846687819901436..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72504274663308416862012-05-09T21:04:43.327-04:002012-05-09T21:04:43.327-04:00Why? What is the problem with couple of gays pled...Why? What is the problem with couple of gays pledging eternal love?Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39225918676008133582012-05-09T19:31:17.337-04:002012-05-09T19:31:17.337-04:00.
Nonsense. Words have meaning. I find it objec....<br /><br />Nonsense. Words have meaning. I find it objectionable to force changes in those meanings to fit a political agenda. Shades of <i>1984</i> and Newspeak.<br /><br />The word 'marriage' has been around for millenia and there has been a general acceptance that it was the union of a man and a women. <br /><br />Gay unions have been around for the same time (I assume), in some places accepted (Greece) and in others (Rome) not, but they weren't called marriage.<br /><br />Gays are gaining more and more acceptance in this country and around the world. The vast majority of of people in this country have no problem with gay civil unions and the legal rights that go with them if you can believe the polls. Likewise, I believe I saw that recently a small plurality favor allowing gays to marry (although 30 states have laws outlawing it). The trend is in the gays favor, with young people, Democrats, the NE states and California, and non-fundamentalists favoring allowing gays to marry. However, to my mind, you can't apply the democratic fallacy to this subject.<br /><br />When T was gay, she said she wanted the same legal rights as everyone else in this country. I asked her to explain to me the difference in legal rights between civil unions and "gay marriage". She couldn't. There is none. When I asked if she would be satisfied with a civil union that gave her the legal rights she wanted instead of gay marriage she said no.<br /><br />Gays definitely want equal rights and IMO they should get them. What they shouldn't get, again IMO, is to be able to redefine a perfectly good word that has had a particular meaning for thousands of years just to advance their agenda. And what is that agenda? They not only want to be treated as equal legally, they want their union to be accepted as identical with that of the marriage of a man and woman. To do that, there main objective is to define their union as the same as heterosexual marriage.<br /><br />The fact that you would so readily accept an oxymoron does not surprise, the fact that you do no see the agenda here, is even less surprising; however, your inference that gays are not being treated as People and won't be until gay marriage replaces civil unions is ludicrous.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27444988043034187282012-05-09T19:02:54.428-04:002012-05-09T19:02:54.428-04:00One can though always push the choice back to the ...One can though always push the choice back to the other world, where the choice would be made in Plato's meadows of decision where one picks a marker for the type of one's coming life. If one wanted to do that. And if one did, one might as well give up on reforming the individual here below, as it would be doubtful transcendental decisions can be so overturned.<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-92109869613090170942012-05-09T18:56:25.716-04:002012-05-09T18:56:25.716-04:00It's not a life style choice. If it were, the ...It's not a life style choice. If it were, the Church of Scientology could have dealt with John Travolta. It's not genetic, either. It is developmental, in the very early stages of fetal development, so I was reading in a long article by the Dean of Biology at Oxford, who is conducting an in depth study of the issue. Very early on a series of biochemical hoops, hurdles and switches have to be negotiated in the proper sequence, or you get 'other than normal'.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8005188415258807882012-05-09T18:37:57.379-04:002012-05-09T18:37:57.379-04:00Then you got Jews marryin' Christians.
And,...Then you got Jews marryin' Christians. <br /><br />And, injuns; what're we going to do about them injuns?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7120476675477445012012-05-09T18:35:59.618-04:002012-05-09T18:35:59.618-04:00Probably ought to do something about those interra...Probably ought to do something about those interracial marriages, also. You know that ain't "God's Way."Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84471830221062916282012-05-09T18:33:37.174-04:002012-05-09T18:33:37.174-04:00We'll just vote for the guy that agrees with A...We'll just vote for the guy that agrees with Ahmadinejad on gays. After all, God don't like Gays, right?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78045940753258746142012-05-09T18:30:57.129-04:002012-05-09T18:30:57.129-04:00Yeah, People being treated like "People,"...Yeah, People being treated like "People," we sure can't have That.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60339367799742268852012-05-09T18:15:27.843-04:002012-05-09T18:15:27.843-04:00.
Obama came out in support of gay marriage today....<br /><br />Obama came out in support of gay marriage today. I suspect it was a political calculation, but regardless, one more item on the list that I am pulling together for me to vote 'against' him rather than just not voting 'for' him.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68705933774283982882012-05-09T16:36:55.479-04:002012-05-09T16:36:55.479-04:00Mr Judd rises in the polls. In 2008 he ran in the ...Mr Judd rises in the polls. In 2008 he ran in the Idaho Democratic primary against Hillary and Zero, but only scored 1.7% of the vote. In West Virginia he got 41% against Zero. The fact that he is now a felon may have helped him in West Virginia, but on the downside, it is hard to campaign from a Federal prison.<br /><br />If only he had been able to get out there and shake a few hands and kiss a few babies, he might well have won<br /><br />Read all about it here--<br /><br />http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0509/Ouch!-Obama-loses-41-percent-of-W.Va.-primary-vote-to-federal-inmate<br /><br />Anybody want to be his delegate to the Convention? Contact him at the prison in Texarkana, Texas.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61728901653675302802012-05-09T15:03:03.335-04:002012-05-09T15:03:03.335-04:00Lot of that going around.Lot of that going around.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54744293441573453632012-05-09T14:50:33.784-04:002012-05-09T14:50:33.784-04:00.
I made it through 3 or 4 paragraphs and decided....<br /><br />I made it through 3 or 4 paragraphs and decided the author was so freakin full of himself it was a waste of my time going any further.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58598339400769097452012-05-09T14:45:39.188-04:002012-05-09T14:45:39.188-04:00Need to take a look at (private investigator) Hagm...Need to take a look at (private investigator) Hagmann's recent columns. Seems to be a central focus.<br /><br />What makes the conspiracy subjects hard - maddening - is the intricate interplay of reality with fantasy - multiple levels of reality and multiple levels of fantasy.<br /><br />For example this National Defense Authorization Act has a "creepy" feel to it, as do the legal assaults under GWB prepared by John Yoo (ref Quirk) and the potential for using drones as a common instrument of civilian law enforcement.<br /><br />The general milieu is "itchy." Mix in a handful of intensely driven political operatives with devotional motivation to a cause and the blood sport of American politics becomes an energy force field unto itself.<br /><br />Geithner is about as far from being a socialist (or a marxist) as I am from being Lady GaGa. He is a Bank(st)er. <br /><br />More from Hagmann: <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/35531" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30457431365278930052012-05-09T14:34:16.309-04:002012-05-09T14:34:16.309-04:00.
Where do you come up with this stuff?
..<br /><br />Where do you come up with this stuff?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87397282358682694942012-05-09T14:21:40.845-04:002012-05-09T14:21:40.845-04:00Apparently I'm not going anywhere.
The future...Apparently I'm not going anywhere.<br /><br />The future of Greek CDS's:<br /><br /><i>3) The ISDA has not yet given a clear statement if such a deal will be considered as a credit event causing CDS to be paid out.</i><br /><br /><i>4) If agreement was ruled as a no-credit event, hedge funds might take it to Greek courts, holding up the debt swap ad infinitum.</i><br /><br /><i>I would like to point that if CDS is not paid, this will even be a far worse scenario that having the CDS paid. The reason is that market participants, who have bought Greek CDS to avoid a default (A haircut of 1% is considered a default for any CDS holder) will expect a compensation for their losses, and without this payment, the CDS market will have no purpose, it will collapse. If market participants had no guarantees against their sovereign holdings, not only they will dump their CDSs but the sovereign bonds they held these CDS against. Remember, Greece is just the current can on the road but other cans are still on the road, we'll have to deal with Portugal, Italy and Spain.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/321258-the-greek-default-and-how-to-play-it" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />And finally, the "money" graph:<br /><br /><i>Additionally, the total exposure of banks in the United States is higher than German banks. US banks' total exposure of Greek debt amounted to around US$41 billion. But the nature of exposure US banks have is rather different, it is through guarantees or CDS. It shows that there could be potential problems for US banks [Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS)] if CDS were triggered and obviously problems for European banks [BNP Paribas (BNPQF.PK) Deutsche Bank (DB)] if bonds default.</i>Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1040070946322502472012-05-09T13:40:31.727-04:002012-05-09T13:40:31.727-04:00I'm out the door again but I think reality is ...I'm out the door again but I think reality is somewhere in the middle.<br /><br />Some of those youngish operatives come hard-wired with that "grim and determined" gleam in their eyes leaving good judgment to search for another place in history.<br /><br />But those Canadians. They're quite the hoots. Payback for Keystone???Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67640305181385453532012-05-09T13:35:50.304-04:002012-05-09T13:35:50.304-04:00Somethin' stronger than any weed I've ever...Somethin' stronger than any weed I've ever smoked.<br /><br />from the link: <i>"“The Obama administration is working closely with Bernanke, Geithner and others not to save our economy, but to outright destroy it."</i><br /><br /><br />That's getting pretty far out into the "weeds," I'd say. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64456533377169197142012-05-09T13:32:47.525-04:002012-05-09T13:32:47.525-04:00Why Obama is going to get clobbered here ==
http:...Why Obama is going to get clobbered here ==<br /><br />http://nationaljournal.com/columns/against-the-grain/obama-the-underdog-20120508<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72375098915890555732012-05-09T13:26:13.772-04:002012-05-09T13:26:13.772-04:00And if American Thinker, the news source you can t...And if American Thinker, the news source you can trust, should ever say differently, I'll let you know.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74018931457054762242012-05-09T13:23:38.237-04:002012-05-09T13:23:38.237-04:00My judgement is the people at Canada Free Press ha...My judgement is the people at Canada Free Press have been smoking weed.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17504730053546242472012-05-09T13:17:13.055-04:002012-05-09T13:17:13.055-04:00Obama situation room take down Osama photo is a fa...Obama situation room take down Osama photo is a fake<br /><br />Read here -<br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/strange_anomalies_in_the_famous_situation_room_photo.html<br /><br />All the experts in the comments section seem to agree, the photo is phoney. <br /><br />All the details available to you courtesy of American Thinker. You too can understand why the photo is photo shopped.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82658136818333823262012-05-09T13:13:07.200-04:002012-05-09T13:13:07.200-04:00Obama administration, including his czars and his ...<i>Obama administration, including his czars and his closest Progressive supporters, are planning a manufactured insurgency against America. Using the media to garner both sympathy and support for his unfinished goals</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46516" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />[h/t BC]<br /><br />Everyone should read this and make his/her own judgments.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67826472394549651862012-05-09T13:09:12.702-04:002012-05-09T13:09:12.702-04:00There have been "hit and run" protests i...<i>There have been "hit and run" protests in Damascus and Aleppo as dozens of activists will coordinate through social media and show up at a designated street corner or parking lot and chant anti-Assad slogans for a few minutes, disappearing before state security has a chance to respond. News of the protests sweeps through the neighborhoods and districts, giving heart to opponents of the regime and striking fear in the hears of its supporters.</i><br /><br />from the most reliable source of all, American Thinker<br /><br />And if this keeps up Assad is toast too.<br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/finally_the_syrian_revolt_reaches_the_capitol.html<br /><br />All these new communications devices are having a real impact on the uprisings of late. It is interesting to watch, though I wouldn't want to be part of it.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49562552897043886322012-05-09T13:06:08.725-04:002012-05-09T13:06:08.725-04:00Obama is toasted.
bObama is toasted.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2718146608868769372012-05-09T12:58:28.407-04:002012-05-09T12:58:28.407-04:00Nothing nobody don't already know.
Nouriel Ro...Nothing nobody don't already know.<br /><br />Nouriel Roubini's negative "slow train wreck" prognosis for Europe is being rebutted by EUropean finance guys like Pierre Lagrange who predicts some kind of fiscal union, although the time frame is slow motion - 3 years or so.<br /><br />Not a done deal by any means.<br /><br />Looks like Obama has a serious fight in front of him.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.com