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[valarltd]

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss. May your afterlife hold all the zizzer-zazzer-zuzzes you could want.
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Not only are gay people unconstitutional, we apparently have fangs as well. (You'd think my dentist would have said something.) Not that there's anything wrong with that:


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Antibiotic-immune MRSA on the rise Scary stuff, that.

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It's March, which means "Irish as I Wanna Be."
Let's kick off with some Flogging Molly.

The math of ebooks.

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Comments

[celestinenox]

George Washington famously and literally drummed two soldiers out of the Continental Army in the days of our contest with Great Britain after they were discovered in the act of attempted sodomy.

Famously? How come I've never heard of it, then? >:( I demand to know why this isn't in the history books!

Also, some laws are stupid and discriminatory. Laws can change. Laws like this should change. Laws always change, or some just get buried and never enforced until some idiot wants to make a point.

My point being that saying crap like "Perkins is defending current law, and is advocating for the time-honored principle that homosexual conduct is incompatible with military service" is making the assumptions that the law has always been and will always be, which is total BS. And stupid.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at my homosexual agenda and trying to figure out what's so dangerous to the constitution in it.

Letsee. My agenda is...

Finish project at work before 6.
Make dinner for my spouse.
Unpack at least two boxes from moving.
Wash dishes.
Get in bed by 11PM.


I admit that making dinner from scratch instead of purchasing some bulk frozen food at Wal-Mart and shoving it in the microwave is a little unamerican but... I don't think it's unconstitutional. The founding fathers didn't even have microwaves.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Remember to brush your fangs!

My agenda, watch the end of Spartacus before the kid get home, FLY a bit, make dinner, write on a children's religious book, and go to bed before 9.

Oooo, scary.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Awww mom! But I was going to take over the woooOOoorld!

Stupid fangs!

I am really tempted to email the guy with my battle cry

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

which is, "Can I have a citation for that?"

Now, admittedly, sodomy was indeed routinely punished in the armed forces of the time, but I really do want to see the documentary evidence.

I've read a lot of primary source material from the General's time, including his expense account (fascinating stuff--he drank a LOT) and the letters he used to send to General Gage complaining about impolite behavior of British soldiers on picket lines, or apologizing for such behavior on the part of Continental soldiers.

One can wander over to the Library of Congres web site and scroll through screens and screens GW's orders of the day, letters to subordinates and the Brits, all nicely organized by date.

So if this guy DOES have a citation, let's see him produce it.

Betcha a bowl of hot punch he doesn't have one.

Re: I am really tempted to email the guy with my battle cry

[celestinenox]

Damn it. I don't dare take that bet. And I wanted punch, too.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

On the other side of the coin... Baron Von Steuben, George Washington's right hand man and the father of the US military was so gay that he joined up with Washington as a way to escape charges of homosexuality in Europe that would have put him in prison or to death. The man was a military genius and is a large part of why the US is not still a British colony.

Or, put simply for those on the right: They owe their freedom to a faggot. :)

And unlike this guys 'fakts', what I said about Von Steuben is pretty well historically documented. It just isn't talked about a lot.

[celestinenox]

"I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?"

:D Should I have your internets delivered to your home or office?

Damn. I'm going to have to chicken out of this one.

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I can't see any way to comment on the post except by "linking my Facebook account to the AFA", which I won't do. I'm not letting rightwing crazies into my locked account. If you can see any way for me to comment without doing that, I'll go ahead, otherwise, I just can't.

I comment fairly openly, but keep my LJ and FB themselves locked down pretty hard.

[baka-kit.livejournal.com]

When I joined the Navy (before DADT; I actually had to lie by commission, rather than ommission, in order to serve my country) I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. I've been out for almost 15 years, but I'm still defending people's freedom of speech and religion.

Not that the Right appreciates my service. Hmm, I wonder why ... ?

;P