Good morning.
It's Friday, readers. The SFDB Weekend Widget in the right sidebar has just been updated and we're off to a great start. Here's your morning Sift.
A- Oh, what could have been, Random Pixels.
B- Gun Free Zone posts an open letter (apparently) written by someone else who wants America separated into Republicans and Democrats.
––We’ll keep the SUV’s, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.C- Bark Bark Woof Woof on why marriage equality is gaining traction.
––You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
––We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
This is the heart of the matter, and although it’s a bumper-sticker sentiment, it’s true: gay rights are human rights. If we don’t have them, then it harms everyone. Equality is not an Us vs. Them proposition, nor is it a zero-sum game. Me having the right to marry the one I love (as soon as I find him) or adopt a child in Florida, or get survivor and inheritance benefits from Social Security, or any of the other 1,100 things that are available to heterosexual couples only via that one little word — “married” — does not take something away from that nice straight couple next door with their kids.
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2 comments:
B: Why does he want another country when he already lives in a different planet?
B- Sure you've seen this before, but if GFZ wants to separate, it might not be that bad for me.
Dear Red States:
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other
Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware,that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this
split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research
and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft.
You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture
capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make
the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch
of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be
pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizensback from Iraq at once. If you
need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to
their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's
caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up,
but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water,
more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent
of America's quality wines, 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of
the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister
schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have
to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent
of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of alltelevangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University,
Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale,
62 percent believe life is sacredunless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws,
44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and
61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.
Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.
Peace out,
Blue States
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