I was watching Ellen DeGeneres this morning right before leaving for work. She mentioned Ms Kern but not in any derogatory fashion. Ellen mentioned about Sally’s recent newsworthy quote and tried to call her office. She got the answering machine message but after that it stated “we’re sorry, Ms Kerns’ Voice Mail box is full. Please try again later.” The audience got a big laugh over that and Ellen said “wow I bet a lot of people are leaving messages for her.” It would be interesting to see if Ellen continues with this course of action.
My own view? Considering Sept 11, 2001; Hurricane Katrina; the total ineptitude of the Bush Administration and its underlings; the bottom rung that American students always achieve in math and science; Oil going well over $100 per barrel and a host of other problems, Sally Kern reaches the “brilliant” conclusion that homosexuality is America’s number one problem? She should get out more. Perhaps maybe even read a newspaper, watch TV, listen to the radio.
Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it’s the death knell of this country.
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What society totally embraced homosexuality and then ended in a few decades? As a matter of fact, what society ever totally embraced homosexuality?
Baker, what does ‘crop-headed’ mean? I’m imagining corn, but that can’t be right.
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I fear that they will commandeer someone’s penis…
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How exactly does one commandeer someone else’s penis?
– You. We’ll take that.
– Hey, what are you doing? Wait! Stop! Let go! Arrgghh!
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I was watching Ellen DeGeneres this morning right before leaving for work. She mentioned Ms Kern but not in any derogatory fashion. Ellen mentioned about Sally’s recent newsworthy quote and tried to call her office. She got the answering machine message but after that it stated “we’re sorry, Ms Kerns’ Voice Mail box is full. Please try again later.” The audience got a big laugh over that and Ellen said “wow I bet a lot of people are leaving messages for her.” It would be interesting to see if Ellen continues with this course of action.
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You gotta remember a lot of Ellen’s best humor uses coy understatement, then she just lets the subject and audience do all the work.
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Not to mention the 9/11 attack-bringing-down-on-our-heads and the Hurricane-Katrina-making. You guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting for a buncha poofs.
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That ain’t nothin’. A couple of years ago, I personally caused a devastating tsunami a hemisphere away.
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I think there are a lot of repressed homosexuals in conservative positions of power.
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No, that can’t be right. If that was right, then you’d expect a steady trickle of powerful conservatives to get caught taking a wide stance, sending salacious emails to attractive same sex interns, being outed by rent boys and the like. And we all know that doesn’t happen.
So irritating that I didn’t even have to read the article to know she was a Republican. At least it wasn’t from the south for a change (though Oklahoma and the Deep South have pretty similar breeding stock).
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You may want to check your back pocket.
Sometimes I like to think that all of this sound and fury that we’ve been hearing lately is nothing more than the death rattle of homophobia.
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You’d like to think that, but in a Presidential primary, we just had one of the campaigns sneak an “uppity nigger” smear into the campaign to appeal to the racist inclinations of white voters.
And this was in the primary for the allegedly progressive party.
If racism still won’t lie down and die, I’d say homophobia, sadly, still has a very long run ahead of it. It’ll be like “Grease.” It wasn’t any good the first time they did it, wasn’t any better on screen and it’s still pretty bad, and you’d think people would have too much self-respect to like it anymore, but they keep going back.
McCain’s pandering with Rod Parsley is something that I recently did a double take about. I had given McCain more credit than that, but I see now that wasn’t warranted.
“Spiritual adviser” ay there Senator? A planned gay pride parade caused God to smite New Orleans with Katrina, and Christians need to unite in a war against Islam. That is just some peachy-flavored, mold-fuzzed dog shit right there trying to make a dash for the White House.
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Baker, what does ‘crop-headed’ mean? I’m imagining corn, but that can’t be right.
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Crop as a verb means to cut short. So he was berating them for having their hair cut. Or implying they used their heads to eat vegitation, but if they’re not gorgon, I can’t see how that would be. And I doubt snakes eat grass anyway.
But what is a chamois hanky? One the color of the animal, or one the color of the chammy? I thought that color was mustard, though. Or is it made out of the pelt of the animal?
We’ve got the targets in sight. It appears to be two college co-eds who have shared a bottle a wine and have decided to “experiment”… they are now kissing…now they’re rubbing against each other…ummm…everything’s under control here but we’re going to keep monitoring this situation just in case…
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So irritating that I didn’t even have to read the article to know she was a Republican. At least it wasn’t from the south for a change (though Oklahoma and the Deep South have pretty similar breeding stock).
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So irritating that I didn’t even have to read the article to know she was a Republican. At least it wasn’t from the south for a change (though Oklahoma and the Deep South have pretty similar breeding stock).
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The South got lapped by Oklahoma and Kansas a while back when it comes to intolerant Christian fundies. Kansas, I will admit, seems to be coming back to the pack in the last couple of years.
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Since always. It is part of the Southwest.
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My family, who has lived in Oklahoma since it was a territory, would be quite surprised and probably offended if you told them they weren’t southerners. It was part of the confederacy, you know. I grew up in the south and I’ve lived in the southwest for the last 5 years. I know which is which and believe me, Oklahoma is the south.
