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The Kiddie-Rape Scandal is Closing In on Pope Benedict XVI

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:21:44 +0000

It was probably only a matter of time before this happened, given that Benedict, aka Cardinal Ratzinger, was the author of the Vatican instruction to bishops to hush up the cases. Now scores of abuse charges have surfaced Germany and Austria, including the diocese where he used to preside as archbishop–while he was in charge there.
The Times has front-paged the story http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03… And the lead paragraph says it all.
A senior church official acknowledged that a German archdiocese made “serious mistakes” in reassigning an abusive priest during the pope’s tenure as its archbishop in the 1980s.
It makes for very juicy reading. Do check out the full story. Evidently there is no Latin for “It happened on my watch, and I take full responsibility.” I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before Benedict tries to defend himself with “I was only following orders.”
The story notes that this could undermine the pope’s “moral authority” (as if he had any) and undo his program for the “re-Christianization of Europe” (make your own joke). It should all be heaps of fun to watch as it develops over the next few months. There have to be smoking guns, and we can count on the European tabloids, if not the MSM there, to find them.

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Should I Break Up With Her?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:37:53 +0000

What’s on my mind? I don’t know? Everything’s confusing. How can I tell if my girlfriend is lying to me about everything in particular? Lately, she has been mean to me: she yells at me, puts me down, angers easy towards me, She’s always asking me questions of what I am doing, the weird thing today is I checked her email addy to see what she has been scrolling on the net, which I did feel bad about doing but it’s not that I can’t and I sneaked, her password is up on the AOL to where it was easy to sign in. Plus she doesn’t know anything about computers and to know to clear the history. Well guess what I saw, she is browsing girl pages on MySpace. She is looking up my accounts that she doesn’t have the passwords for, so trying too. I told her that one of our close friends might like her, and she yelled at me saying I better never ask her that again, and I am wrong. She treats the cats nicer than me lately.
She won’t get a job; I take care of her and the house. She does things around the house but not helpful for me, only to benefit her needs. She’s nicer to all our friends we hang out with and goes out of her way to do things for them. She believes them over me a lot more. She never believes what I say is true. I can’t do this or that when I try to do things in my life. I can’t say anything in her eyes that seems negative against her friends, even if I am trying to warn her. Only to learn herself later I was right, but by that time which is now, I don’t care feeling over rides me.
She told me during an argument last week that she hated me, yelling it five times in my face that it made me cry, she did apologize later, but it was too late in my eyes. I feel she does things behind my back and lies to me a lot, trying to convince me that she isn’t and it’s the truth, but my gut feeling says she is still lying. She tries to control or manipulate me in one way or another, and when she can’t and I don’t allow it, we are arguing badly. What do I do? Does she really hate me? Do I throw five years of marriage away and secretly leave?

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Mini-minorities

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:15:27 +0000

You've heard of mini-DOMAs, the laws enacted in most states that mimics the federal DOMA amendment, right? Well, I am here to introduce “Mini-minorities.” That is, a Religious Right's use of minority pawns to polarize minorities within minorty communities. Follow me? This type of thing is nothing new but it is growing more extreme.
We all know how the RR uses and abuses children when they propagate lies against gays. Now that the tactic has become a stalemate, they've devised a way to pit adult minority against adult minority.
One of the most successful lies the Religious Right told was to African American voters during Prop 8: Gays are not really minorities. I imagine it sounded something like, ”Homosexuals are trying to minimize your suffering for their own selfish gain. You're not going to let them get away with that are you? Not even Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter thinks he would have stood up for homosexuals.” (You get the idea).
Well, the Religious Right is at it again. This time they are going to black churches and telling them abortion is a genocidal conspiracy against black people. As quoted in a recent NYTimes opinion piece,
“Since last year, a staff member of Georgia Right to Life has been traveling to black churches and colleges, spreading the lie that abortion is the key to conspiracy to kill off blacks. Recently, the group posted dozens of billboards around Atlanta that proclaim, 'Black children are an endangered species'.”
I have to ask this question: If the Religious Right was around in the 1960s would they be courting black people in the same manner? The answer, I feel confident, would be a solid NO. This is just one reason we have a responsibility to protect and fight for ALL minorities and take away the power of the “mini-minority” from the ugly “majority.” Something to think about…

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ACTION: Mississippi isn’t the only place where LGBT students face discrimination

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:59 +0000

In Mississippi
By now most of you have heard about the sad drama surrounding Prom at the Itawamba Agricultural High School in Mississippi. After a lesbian student named Constance McMillen was told she wouldn't be able to bring her girlfriend as her date to Prom, the ACLU intervened on her behalf and the school eventually cancelled the Prom altogether. School officials are currently encouraging a private prom be organized that can continue to deny Constance and her girlfriend entrance.
The Problem
What's happening in Mississippi unfortunately happens all too often around the country, and not just during Prom season. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students — and those students who are perceived to be LGBT or who associate with LGBT students — are subjected to discrimination, including harassment, bullying, violence; and are deprived of equal access to educational opportunities.
The Solution
Congressman Jared Polis took a stand earlier this year to fight for LGBT students when he introduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act.
At the time of the bill's introduction, he said:
“Like Title VI for minorities in the 60s and Title IX for women in the 70s, my legislation puts LGBT students on an equal footing with their peers, so they can attend school and get a quality education, free from fear.”
How You Can Help
At Stonewall Democrats, we decided that this moment of support and sympathy for Constance should be channeled towards Congressman Polis' bill.
We launched a petition this afternoon, and we're asking folks to urge their members of Congress to co-sponsor the Student Non-Discrimination Act. You can read, and sign, the petition here:http://www.change.org/actions/view/demand_all_proms_are_fair_support_the_student_non-discrimination_act
We've set an ambitious goal — 1000 letters to Congress — especially for a Friday afternoon. So please, take a moment and join us in calling on Congress to make sure every student in America is protected.
Tell your Representative in Congress to co-sponsor the Student Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 4530), so Constance McMillen — and every student — can have equal access to public education:http://www.change.org/actions/view/demand_all_proms_are_fair_support_the_student_non-discrimination_act

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TLL Q & A Advice Panel Installment #59

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:19:05 +0000

Hot:

Name: Cassie Lawhon
Age: 23
Location: West Virginia
Question: My girlfriend and I are getting legally married in August, but I’m having problems with dealing with her ex- husband. They have 3 kids together who are ages 17, 18, 21. When we are with the kids they know that we are together but when the ex is around they always talk about family things and things that the family did when they were married and I’m never acknowledged as the girlfriend to the ex-husband. I’m not sure what to think about this and if I should bring it up. I want to be with her but I can’t be the outcast when he is around.

Read the TLL Advice Panelists answers after the jump…

Lori Hahn

Dear Cassie,
Before you get married, you need to settle this issue with your girlfriend. She must acknowledge you and you must accept that she had a long life before you and their shared conversation will naturally include that as now there are no more stories to gather as a family unit – it’s all that is left of it. She can be more sensitive to you however, even in that regard. But, don’t get married until it’s resolved, because it will fester with you.
Good luck!
Lori
Hahn at Home

Shanna Katz

Cassie -
That’s always a difficult situation, for people of any gender/orientation, with or without kids. It’s hard to not play the comparison game with exs, or even be jealous. And it’s normal and ok.
That said, if you feel like it is affecting you and/or your relationship, then the best thing you can do is talk about it. Don’t be accusatory, or angry, but let your partner know that you’re feeling left out at certain times, and maybe provide her with possible solutions so that you two can figure out a way to make it work. If you approach it with anger, it’s likely she too will get angry and it could cause issues. However, if you talk about it like to loving adults, which you are, you might bring something to her attention which she hadn’t noticed before. Communication is always the answer.
Best of luck,
Shanna
www.shannakatz.com

Dharma Kelleher

Dear Cassie,
Talk to your girlfriend about your concerns. Share you feelings in a non-accusatory way (e.g. “I felt belittled when such-and-such happened.”) It appears that your girlfriend and her ex-husband are many years older than you are. That might be playing into it as well. Or it might. But have an open discussion with your girlfriend about it.
Peace out,
Dharma Kelleher
http://www.dharmakelleher.com/

Tina-cious

Hi Cassie,
Who isn’t acknowledging you? The kids or your fiancée? If it’s your fiancée, you need to talk to her… tell her how it makes you feel. It’s the only way to stop it.
If it’s the kids… well, that’s a bigger problem. You don’t want to force them to do/say anything because that may put a wedge between you. Maybe you can bring up your own stories? Interject yourself into the conversation and don’t just sit back and be the 6th wheel (Ok, I get that 6 wheels would actually work, but let’s just go with that).
I’m curious, I see that you are only 2 years older than your oldest step-child. How’s that working out?
Good luck!
Tina-cious

Kelly Leszczynski

Issues like this tend to fester into deal breakers. You have to talk this out with your girlfriend before you get married. The talk of the past will always be there. No many kids want their parents to get divorced and talking about what used to be may console them in some way.
Perhaps it will just be a matter of time. Adjustment periods are always hard to get through. It’s up to you to share your feelings with your girlfriend and make sure you can come to a happy medium.
Kelly
Brain Clouds

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What to do now?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:34:30 +0000

I wrote a post earlier and some of that still remains the same, but I’m more accepting of myself. It’s just that I’m still in high school in a very non-gay community, although there are 2 girls that like me who said “they’re gay for me but no one else” and I haven’t even told them that I like girls yet! So bizarre, but I have hooked up with girls while I’m drunk- but I honestly don’t remember it. So they must tell me that because they ‘heard stories.’
But regardless- I’m one of the girls in my school “everybody knows” since I have 8 other siblings who also went to my school. If I ever let out I’m a lesbian I feel like so many rumors would be started about me. Heck, they already are and I don’t even know how they begin. So I am honestly thinking about just subsiding my identity until I graduate high school.
I’m usually very tenacious, but since September-ish I have been faint-hearted. I went to a doctor yesterday and they told me I am in fact depressed so they gave me medicine to possibly help, but they also set me up with a psychiatrist. The point of telling you all this is should I tell the psychiatrist that I’m absolutely positive I don’t like the opposite sex? I have honestly never liked boys, like ever. I would love to just talk to someone about all this because I never really have. I just don’t want the psychiatrist to say anything to my parents because when I was in middle school I had one and she told my mom everything I ever said, but then again I was a lot younger. I don’t know! So, yeah. Tell me what you think. Thank you.

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Grad School Survival Guide: Part -40.71111= s2

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:58:46 +0000

Since I have an amazing way of disappearing and reappearing on this website, I thought I might explain why. My explanation might not make sense, but neither does the journey of a Ph.D. student. Hell, this post might not even make sense. Does life even make sense? I could argue “yes,” but I am also pretty firm on being able to argue “no.” Does anyone really have any real answers? Not in Graduate School.
Grace Downunder had a fantastic post introducing her series on surviving college probably on the day I burned my palm by trying to cook and share the kitchen with my wife. You might think that has nothing to do with this post, but it really has everything to do with my ethnographic analysis of graduate school that relies solely on virtually no outside empirical evidence. I am typing with one hand, on a break from my dissertation, and finding myself coming out of my alternate reality. I am also starting to realize the more I learn, the less I know. While I could spend hours writing about what I don’t know, this post will be related to what I do know. This is the Grace Underfire survival guide to graduate school.
1) Common Sense = (K+U*G/Y) / (F/D)
…where K (K=B*J*A-H: Knowledge = Books read * journal articles read / articles published – hours spent in lab) + U (Useless information read online) * G (# of Graduate Assistantships)/Y (Years in school pre-K-present) all divided by F (Financial Aid Debt)/ D (Distance from permanent home to grad school)

Did you know that a pan is hot when it comes out of an oven? Yes. Did Socrates? Did Nietzsche? Did I? I don’t think so. Who has the brain capacity to hold such knowledge when there is still a possibility of solving the god question? Descartes meditations + the answer from the equation above will likely guide you to a fairly unclear answer on whether or not you will do stupid things to yourself or others. The more you learn, the less you know. That’s really the only thing that seems like common sense. That, and the critical historical analysis of race and higher education.
2) You don’t know anything.

I know it might seem like repetition, but this is not about common sense. This is really me telling you that you don’t really know anything. While you think you have it all figured out, 10 – 15 scholars will tell you you are full of shit. They are probably right. They spent years and years talking to people about the migratory patterns of finches in the Midwestern states, and you are just wrong. You are always going to be wrong, because you will always be missing something from your theory. While you might argue that birds actually do fly, they might argue that birds soar vs. fly because flying is actually a misunderstood truth based on velocity, weight, and elements in the atmosphere that is perpetuated by a leftist media built by a capitalistic conglomeration in Southeast Texas.
3) Using big words.

I would love to spend time generating some sort of amazing use of heteronormative practices on pedagogical leanings in middle school educators, but my palm still hurts. Instead, I am going to give you a link to a Dissertation Generator (link http://www.brysons.net/generator/index.cgi). This website will show you what kind of words you will be using in graduate school. The thing to really understand is that no one really knows what these words mean, but they seem to use them at every chance. I could just tell you I am writing a dissertation on Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters, but this generator gives you examples of dissertations that you could do.

The Homosocial Destabilizing The Proletariat: Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters and Mythos
Illness and Power in Three Sisters: Anton Chekhov Altering Feminist Subject
Politics and Memory in Three Sisters: Anton Chekhov Violating Resistant Hegemony
Ventriloquizing, (Re)producing, Smuggling: Objectification in Anton Chekhov and the Objectified Ideology of Tyranny in Three Sisters
Tracing the Fictive Corpses in Anton Chekhov: Three Sisters and Ideology

If you know 50% or more of the words above, you are probably in graduate school. If not, you should analyze the heteroscedasticity of the snowball sample group I surveyed about whether or not I care.
I am tired. That’s another thing you should know about graduate school. You will always be tired, overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, and bigger than you were in undergrad. You also drink more. You have to. This is pure survival. Get used to it. Anyone else have any survival guide tips?

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Pittsburgh Bloggers Plan Blog Swarm on Marriage Amendment

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:38:47 +0000

For three consecutive sessions, wingnuts in the Pennsylvania Senate have tried to pass a so-called “Marriage Protection” amendment to the State Constitution. They were harrowingly close in 2006, a little further away in 2008 but hoping three times the charm in 2010.
SB 707 was introduced by Senator “We alllow gays to exist” Eichelberger and is currently sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Four key members of the committee are from Western PA - Senators Joan Orie- R, Mary Jo White - R, Wayne Fontana - D, and Jay Costa - D. Also on the committee is Senator Daylin Leach who has introduced legislation to legalize same sex marriage.
A vote is expected on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. White is considered “persuadable” based on previous statements doubting adding discrimination to the state constitution. (I say state and mean Commonwealth. You understand.)

Pittsburgh bloggers are planning to respond with the second Blog for Equality. Our first event took place in March 2008 and included 14 blogs, from hardcore political blogs such as 2 Political Junkies to LGBT individuals blogging about their personal lives.
We invite bloggers from all corners to join us. Our goal is to focus attention on the Tuesday vote. One objective is to generate phone calls to Senator White's office in particular.

Our button is available at http://www.pghlesbian.com/B4E2010.jpg

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Mule fu*king secessionist Neal Horsley charged with terroristic threats against Elton John

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:56:05 +0000

It seems that the Blend’s favorite mule fu*ker, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Neal Horsley has landed himself in a bit of a mess.
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/…
An anti-abortion activist and gubernatorial candidate from Carrollton who was arrested for allegedly making threats against Elton John is still being held in the Fulton County jail.
Neal Horsley was taken into custody Wednesday in Carrollton by members of the Atlanta police fugitive squad and U.S. Marshal’s office, according to Carrollton police.
Horsley was booked into the Fulton County Jail, charged with terroristic threats, criminal defamation and using the Internet to disseminate threats. During a hearing Thursday morning at the jail, Magistrate Judge James Altman set bond for Horsley at $40,000 on all three charges.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlant…

The mule fu*ker was oh-so kind enough to attach this description with the youtube video.
There is a sin unto death (1 Jn 5:17). Elton John might have committed it. Elton John says the Lord Jesus Christ is a sexual pervert who acheives orgasm by having men insert their penises into his anal orifice. Okay, he didn’t say those words. But everyone on earth knows that’s what Sir Elton meant when he said Jesus is “gay” which is what he did say in a national magazine. This video explains what Elton John is going to get some day soon.
H/T Joe.My.God

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Mule fu*king secessionist charged with terroristic threats against Elton John

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:56:05 +0000

It seems that the Blend’s favorite mule fu*ker, Georgia gubernatorial has landed himself in a bit of a mess.
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/…
An anti-abortion activist and gubernatorial candidate from Carrollton who was arrested for allegedly making threats against Elton John is still being held in the Fulton County jail.
Neal Horsley was taken into custody Wednesday in Carrollton by members of the Atlanta police fugitive squad and U.S. Marshal’s office, according to Carrollton police.
Horsley was booked into the Fulton County Jail, charged with terroristic threats, criminal defamation and using the Internet to disseminate threats. During a hearing Thursday morning at the jail, Magistrate Judge James Altman set bond for Horsley at $40,000 on all three charges.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlant…
Surf over to Joe.My.God for video.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2…
H/T Joe.My.God

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