With profound apologies to the late, great John Lennon, though, I can't help but imagine he would have approved...
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Lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies,
There's nothing you can say that must be true
Nothing you can do that can’t be spun
Nothing you can say more important than how you play the game
It's sleazy.
There's no accusation you can make that won’t adhere.
No expert’s knowledge you cannot smear
Nothing to stop you from pandering to a mighty and wealthy few - It's sleazy.
All you need are lies,
All you need are lies,
All you need are lies, lies,
Lies are all you need.
Lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies,
lies, lies, lies,
All you need are lies,
All you need are lies,
All you need are lies, lies,
Lies are all you need.
There's no one who cares about what is known.
People don’t want truth they just want to be shown.
Nowhere we can hide from democracy's downward slide.
It's Sleazy.
All you need are lies,
All you need are lies,
All you need are lies, lies,
Lies are all you need.
All you need are lies, (all together now)
All you need are lies, (everybody)
All you need are lies, lies,
Lies are all you need.
2.27.2012
2.25.2012
Natural Election 2012: The Great and Powerful Newt
Seriously folks - pay SPECIAL attention to the critter behind the curtain in this case...
2.20.2012
A Little Experiment
Pliny's been a bit pre-occupied of late, but I'd like to conduct a little experiment this week. The Right wing pundits are always talking about this 'war on religious freedom", that only they, and their admirers seem to be able to see, as far as I can tell. So this week, I'm collecting a sample of news events. All are welcome to contribute. In one column will be all the articles from the news (that I can find or that I am sent) that are examples of attacks on religious freedom here in the good 'ole USA, and the second column will be articles about attacks by the religious on the freedoms of others. It should be interesting.
2.10.2012
A Slippery Slope Argument
Reading some of the spin coming out of Komen, other organizations that have targeted Planned Parenthood, and the editorial page, I do see evidence of the slippery slope argument.
It goes as follows:
Right to Life
Right to Life
Right to Life
Right to Life
Right to Lie
It's easy to forget that the moral high ground crumbles quickly when eroded by lies.
It goes as follows:
Right to Life
Right to Life
Right to Life
Right to Life
Right to Lie
It's easy to forget that the moral high ground crumbles quickly when eroded by lies.
2.05.2012
2.01.2012
Aids for the Religiously Impaired
Gender Determination: For those in parts of Afghanistan where there may well be no remaining biology books, a short primer on sex determination of offspring.
Each of your cells has 23 pairs of chromosomes. One of those pairs contains the chromosomes that determine gender. Since you are a man, you most likely have an X chromosome and a Y chromosome. The Y chromosome determines male gender. Now, in a process that is not described in any holy text, your body produces little sex cells called sperm, while your wife's makes eggs. These sex cells are unique in that each has only one copy from each of the 23 pairs of chromosomes, meaning that instead of 46 chromosomes like all your other cells) the sex cells have 23. Since women (like your wife, presumably) have only X sex chromosomes, you can pretty much guarantee that the egg will have one.
Your seed however can have either an X or a Y in it.
In order for your wife to be with child (by your efforts at least) you must impregnate her with your seed or sperm. That way, the 23 chromosomes in your seed can be combined with the 23 in the wife's egg to produce an offspring, which depending upon whether one of your Y chromosome bearing seeds or one of the X bearing ones get's there first, will be either a boy (XY) or a girl (XX).
So, if your child turns out to be a girl, it's completely your doing, not your wife's. Or it's clearly God's will, in which case who are you to argue. If you don't like that, then you should kill yourself or pound on your Johnson or testicles with a ball peen hammer or the jaw bone of an ass to express your displeasure. Or have your mother strangle you for failing to give her a grandson.
Christian Persecution in the modern USA. Little history lesson - since 323 AD it's been the Christians doing the persecuting. Being told to mind your own business is not persecution. Being persecuted is not having someone roll their eyes at you for wearing a big crucifix around your neck - it's being required to wear it so that the government knows who you are and can find you anytime it decides to get rid of you. Get over the martyrdom, and stop pining for a world where nobody can question your right to tell them what to do.
Each of your cells has 23 pairs of chromosomes. One of those pairs contains the chromosomes that determine gender. Since you are a man, you most likely have an X chromosome and a Y chromosome. The Y chromosome determines male gender. Now, in a process that is not described in any holy text, your body produces little sex cells called sperm, while your wife's makes eggs. These sex cells are unique in that each has only one copy from each of the 23 pairs of chromosomes, meaning that instead of 46 chromosomes like all your other cells) the sex cells have 23. Since women (like your wife, presumably) have only X sex chromosomes, you can pretty much guarantee that the egg will have one.
Your seed however can have either an X or a Y in it.
In order for your wife to be with child (by your efforts at least) you must impregnate her with your seed or sperm. That way, the 23 chromosomes in your seed can be combined with the 23 in the wife's egg to produce an offspring, which depending upon whether one of your Y chromosome bearing seeds or one of the X bearing ones get's there first, will be either a boy (XY) or a girl (XX).
So, if your child turns out to be a girl, it's completely your doing, not your wife's. Or it's clearly God's will, in which case who are you to argue. If you don't like that, then you should kill yourself or pound on your Johnson or testicles with a ball peen hammer or the jaw bone of an ass to express your displeasure. Or have your mother strangle you for failing to give her a grandson.Christian Persecution in the modern USA. Little history lesson - since 323 AD it's been the Christians doing the persecuting. Being told to mind your own business is not persecution. Being persecuted is not having someone roll their eyes at you for wearing a big crucifix around your neck - it's being required to wear it so that the government knows who you are and can find you anytime it decides to get rid of you. Get over the martyrdom, and stop pining for a world where nobody can question your right to tell them what to do.
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