quote:

The US vice-president's daughter, Mary, delivered an 8lb 6oz boy yesterday, the first child for her and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe. Samuel David Cheney becomes the sixth grandchild of Dick and Lynne Cheney. So far so unsettling for a Republican arch-hawk in the Bush administration, so you would think. But where are the predictable calls of 'hell child' and howls of consternation from the religious right? Tom Cloyd on the Sleight of Mind blog tries to pre-empt the outrage. "This child has a problem, however. His mother is homosexual, but that's not the problem. The mistaken view of his mother by a significant number of people in our country - that's the problem." The Christian Newswire did play the game and released a statement in which Peter LaBarbera claims the arrival of the infant as bitttersweet. "While we celebrate life, we cannot celebrate homosexual parenting -- which involves intentionally denying a child either a mom or a dad." The Focus on the Family group did chip in also and said: "Just because it's possible to conceive a child outside the relationship of a married mother and father doesn't mean it's best for the child. Love cannot replace a mom or a dad." Mary Cheney announced in December that she and Poe had decided to start a family. Her decision to become pregnant and raise a child in a same-sex relationship was predictably criticised in conservative circles. However, Cheney surprised many by coming out in support of his daughter - after the 2004 election campaign, on which Mary Cheney worked - and said people "ought to be free to enter into any kind" of union. Mary Cheney later called president Bush's support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages "a gross affront to gays and lesbians everywhere". But the story seems to have barely mustered national attention, with most of the US dailies carrying a brief story and generally very little comment - then again, maybe most of the bluster was used up after the announcement by the women to start a family. Perhaps the scariest part of the whole affair is the picture released by the White House of the loving grandparents, in which Dick Cheney sports an expression somewhere between enigmatic and the look of a man who has just urinated into your cup before serving you a cappuccino. The religious right, it seems, is more preoccupied with why Paris Hilton is carrying a Bible around these days.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/ar..._easy_ride.html

___________________
"The favorite American pastime is not baseball, it's moral crusades."

Awww, c'mon now - you know damn well that what's good for the Goose...













...is not good for Maverick.


























i have no idea why i said it.




























but it made me chuckle a bit.















that, and look on Dick's face comment.

___________________

quote:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don�t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life�s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

--Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

you seem to be high today...

___________________

Download and review ! Omega_M - In the Mix (Beta Version)

Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

quote:

Originally posted by Omega_M you seem to be high today...

nope disguistingly sober. clean as Dick's bald spot.

___________________

quote:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don�t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life�s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

--Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

quote:

Originally posted by emc^2 that, and look on Dick's face comment.

quote:

Perhaps the scariest part of the whole affair is the picture released by the White House of the loving grandparents, in which Dick Cheney sports an expression somewhere between enigmatic and the look of a man who has just urinated into your cup before serving you a cappuccino.

___________________
"The favorite American pastime is not baseball, it's moral crusades."